Christmas Snaps
Author: Edinburgh Foody
Recipe type: Drinks
Cuisine: Swedish
Serves: 0.5 litres
- Vodka, 50 cl
- 7 cardamom pods, insides only
- 3 sticks of cinnamon
- 4 long pieces of orange peel (use a potato peeler to get strips from top to bottom, with as much of the orange and as little of the pith as possible.)
- 7 cloves
- 3 tbsp brown sugar
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bottle or jar.
- Mix.
- Pour in vodka.
- Mix or shake until the sugar is dissolved.
- Leave in dark cupboard for 6-8 weeks.
- Sieve to remove flavourings.
- Put back in dark cupboard for at least three months.
- Transfer to freezer.
- Serve in chilled shot glasses with a herring sandwich or on its own as an aperitif.
Recipe by Edinburgh Foody at http://www.edinburghfoody.com/2010/07/22/the-swedish-trilogy-pt-2-snaps/
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