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Subject: Re: Creme de Almond
From: Dom Costa
Posted: Fri Nov 16. 2001, 09:22 UTC
Followup to: "Re: Creme de Almond"  by Kent Garber  (Fri Nov 16. 2001, 02:53 UTC)
> 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.


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