If life gives you lemons, make this lemonade.
Madrid will not have parties, festivals, or street chotis this summer (all parties have been cancelled, for now, until October). The most traditional neighborhoods of the capital are left without their chained jaleíllo. The festivities began on August 6 with San Cayetano , relieved him San Lorenzo and ended with Dove . From Lavapies to La Latina. The coolest Madrid.
Those summers of revelry and manila shawls, of ironed percale skirts and black patent leather shoes, of ins and outs and gallinejas, of minis and concerts in the street this year will be just a memory. But the good people of Madrid, the chulapos, carry the verbena inside and will continue to celebrate it in privacy, at home, responsibly. If the chulapo doesn't go to the verbena, the verbena comes to the chulapo. Actually, he has never abandoned him.
footbath , for example, has not given up dressing its streets in colors with lanterns and shawls even if there are no parties. The neighbors have organized themselves to throw the festive garlands between balconies, as they did during confinement. The patrons of Madrid will not be left without their colorful tribute in the to Bear Street , for instance.
Fresh lemon.
Precisely, that street, epicenter of the San Cayetano festivities that kicked off the summer festival, is one of those that always offers 'limoná por la voluntá'. The neighbors take to the streets and the production of 'limoná' does not stop, fresh, tasty, dangerous.
This year it's up to us prepare it at home, toast to San Cayetano, San Lorenzo, La Paloma, and to 'Madrí'. We'll go to the dance spilling salt another year.
This is the recipe for 'limoná', which is not at all a lemonade suitable for the minor public. It's almost a bloodletting although calling it that is an insult for this concoction more traditional than vermouth.
Recipe of the lemon of the verbena of Madrid
INGREDIENTS:
1 bottle of white wine
4 lemons
1 cinnamon stick
1 golden apple
5/6 tablespoons of sugar (to taste)
250 ml ice water
ELABORATION:
1.The wine is macerated with the lemon peels, the cinnamon stick and the sugar. Preferably for 24 hours. It can also be macerated with the apple, if so, the next day it is removed.
2.In this mixture, remove the cinnamon, add the lemon juice, ice water and more sugar if necessary.
3. Add the apple cut into pieces.
4.Serve well with ice.
The festivals of San Cayetano, San Lorenzo and La Paloma will fill Madrid with color