Post #492998 by CincyTikiCraig on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 9:46 PM

On 2009-11-08 18:06, Mr. NoNaMe wrote:
When a drink calls for the juice of one squeezed lemon & one squeezed lime does that mean the natural sized l & l?
In my head lemons are usually larger than limes. How much larger? What are the yields of one lemon and lime squeezed?

I made a few olde timey drinks to'nite. This last one needed one lemon & one lime squeezed. How does one know if their lemon is smaller than my lime?

Where is my government now!!!

I've asked this very question over at egullet before. Just since the time that I was a kid I've noticed that lemons & limes have gotten much larger. Limes are as big as lemons used to be and lemons are big as some oranges used to be. I wonder what citrus like 50, 60 or 100 years ago (in the golden age of the cocktail)? Old recipes that list 'the juice of one lemon' vex me; I want to know exactly how much juice to mix.