St Allie
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watched this on the 'french food at home' program on the food channel..
it looks like a good use for wine bottled that is a bit over dry or lacks a bit of flavour..
I'm going to give it a go with a bottle or two of lemon-ginger wine that's a bit blahh.. only I will do one with grapefruit and one with lemon.. seeing as I have a heap of those here at present..
will let you know how it comes out.
by the way you can freeze citrus zest for later.. so don't waste those zests when you cook!
Ingredients:
Orange Peel Wine
•One 750 ml bottle dry white wine
•1 x medium organic orange
•1/3 cup sugar
•8 x coriander seeds, optional
Directions:
Orange Peel Wine
1.Open the wine. Pour out half a cup to enjoy while you carry on with the recipe. (This is not greed: a bit has to come out or the bottle with overflow when you add the other ingredients.)
2.Shave the zest from the orange with a vegetable peeler. Remove every trace of bitter white pith from the back with a sharp knife. Poke the orange zest into the bottle of wine. Funnel in the sugar. Drop in the coriander seeds. Recork the bottle. Turn it upside down and right side up a few times until the sugar has dissolved. Refrigerate one week, giving the wine a shake once a day.
3.Strain into a carafe and serve well chilled as an aperitif.
it looks like a good use for wine bottled that is a bit over dry or lacks a bit of flavour..
I'm going to give it a go with a bottle or two of lemon-ginger wine that's a bit blahh.. only I will do one with grapefruit and one with lemon.. seeing as I have a heap of those here at present..
will let you know how it comes out.
by the way you can freeze citrus zest for later.. so don't waste those zests when you cook!
Ingredients:
Orange Peel Wine
•One 750 ml bottle dry white wine
•1 x medium organic orange
•1/3 cup sugar
•8 x coriander seeds, optional
Directions:
Orange Peel Wine
1.Open the wine. Pour out half a cup to enjoy while you carry on with the recipe. (This is not greed: a bit has to come out or the bottle with overflow when you add the other ingredients.)
2.Shave the zest from the orange with a vegetable peeler. Remove every trace of bitter white pith from the back with a sharp knife. Poke the orange zest into the bottle of wine. Funnel in the sugar. Drop in the coriander seeds. Recork the bottle. Turn it upside down and right side up a few times until the sugar has dissolved. Refrigerate one week, giving the wine a shake once a day.
3.Strain into a carafe and serve well chilled as an aperitif.