I am going to make this again for the holidays. As the other reviewers mentioned, be patient, especially with the filtering process. It does come out perfectly and tasty. It brings back memories of the Azoes - esp around the holidays - Feliz Natal.

I have made this recipe twice now and its great, although a little tricky. I find that it takes quite a while to strain/ a couple of days. You need to change the filter often. I have used about 6 filters. Also I wet them first...this seems to help. If you try to squeeze it through it will be cloudy. Good Luck.its worth it.

I have made this twice now and both times I ended up with a milky liquid. The first time I made it with full cream milk the second with 2%. Not wanting to dispose of a second lot without trying something drastic, I squeezed the lemon and left it overnight. The following day I noticed a slight change in the liquid surrounding the lemon and decided to try filtering some (After all I had nothing to loose.) The end result is a pale yellow liquid that does in deed look and taste like what it is supposed too. Why did it not perform in the manner that I was told it would prior to squeezing the lemon I don't know. Both times I had kept the mixture stored in a dark place. Your guess is as good as mine. All I can say is squeeze the lemon at the end if all else fails.

I have made this recipe twice and it is divine. Try using a jelly bag over a bowl to get the liquid away from the solids. You must be patient...it takes a bit of time (like overnight). The leftover chocolate is nice in a "grown-up" hot chocolate drink.

my purpose -- to make cool, unique x-mas gifts for my friends. the result- $50 and 8 hours WASTED, no gifts, lots of empty bottles. i followed the recipe perfectly, mixed the ingredients, stirred the liquor, kept it in a dark space... at the end of 10 days it was a milky white color and smelled devine. THE PROBLEM-- when I poured it into a coffee filter, it did not filter-- at all. I got 2 or 3 droplets. SO... I bought cheesecloth -- and filtered it 7 or 8 times. 2 hours later, I thought, "now that I've rid it of most of the slimey, milkey substance, it's time for the filter." NO. So far, i've had 1/4 cup sitting in 2 different coffee filters (the cheapest and most porous, mind you) and have gleaned 1/8 of an inch of "clear yellow liquid." At this rate, it would take me at least a month and a weeks worth of labor to get less than a cup. I don't know what kind of coffee filters they have in portugal... So now I have a gallon's worth of a cloudy (albeit nice smelling) substance that may or may not send my friends to the hospital... Do I bottle it and say, "A Portuguese Baileys?" I tried everything to make this work and it didn't. I wish the instructions were clearer, prehaps, and more specific, and I feel like an idiot for chosing this ONE because I thought it would be different. Should have made the stupid coffee liquor that everyone else does. At least that would have turned out. I am VERY mortified and disappointed.