Citrus

Cloved Orange Redaction #1

Cloved Orange — illustration
Illustration — a stand-in until there's a photo of the real thing.

Source loosely based on 1594 recipe of "How to give a prettie grace both in tast and propertie, unto the spirit of wine" — original

Ingredients

  • peel of 2 Valencia oranges
  • 2 cinnamon sticks, 3", broken
  • 8 cloves
  • 6 cups 80-proof brandy
  • simple syrup: 2 c. granulated sugar to 1 c. water

Method

  1. The oranges were pared carefully so that no white pith was used (it makes the flavor bitter); each orange had approximately 1 TB. of peel.
  2. The flavorings were added to the brandy and left for one week, being stirred occasionally.
  3. The liquid was then filtered with a nylon coffee filter and then with doubled paper filters.
  4. The sugar syrup was added in the proportion of 1 c. of syrup to each 2 c. of liquid.

Notes

  • Tasty but clove-heavy; a lower-spice rebatch was disappointingly bland.

Ingredients and method are reproduced here as a matter of record; the full write-up and the author's notes live on dragonbear.com.