Ingredients:
Small organic lemons – 12 (The ones with thin skin.. not the ones with thick pith).
Juice of 5 lemons
Sea Salt – 2 lb (Preferably a grey salt with good mineral content). Both fine and rough salt will work, but have very different textures and practical uses. I would start with fine salt.
You will also need a 2 litre jar with a plastic lid. (metal lids will rust).
Steps:
Wash the lemons,
Cut the tip off where it joined the tree.
Then make an incision down the length of the lemon, cutting from the end you have just cut off, not quite to the end, so that the pieces remain attached.
Turn the lemon a quarter turn, repeat, cutting a second incision at right angles to the first, again, do not cut all the way through – leave the pieces attached.
Repeat for all 12 lemons.
Put about 1 cup of salt in the bottom of the jar
Place 3 lemons into the jar on the salt layer.
Pour a cup of salt over the 3 lemons
Place 3 more lemons on top of that, and repeat until the jar is full, or you have used all of the lemons and salt.
Pour the lemon juice over the top.
Close the jar and put it in a window for 3 – 5 weeks, before use.
The color of both the lemons and the salt will become darker. The lemons will be very soft, soft enough to tear easily.
