> Greetings Fillup,
>
> I highly agree, I read the Amaretto label a number of years ago and I
> believe it is made from the pits of peaches and apricots. But I just
> cut and pasted the information from that website, believing they may
> know more than I do. There is so much erroneous information on the
> internet, I don't know what to believe.
>
> This is what www.barnonedrinks.com says:
> Amaretto A liqueur made from apricot pits, with an almond flavour.
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> http://www.webtender.com/db/ingred/375
>
> Amaretto is a liqueur with a distinct flavor of almonds, though it's
> often made with apricot pits kernels. The original liqueur, Amaretto
> di Saronno, hails from Saronno, Italy. Many distilleries produce
> their own Amaretto.
In fact the distillery who first produced Amaretto has changed the name on the
label switching fom "Amaretto di Saronno" to "Di Saronno Originale" , and this
to distinguish from the hundreds of amarettos you can find on the market
nowadays.