Citrus Bitters
By Nicole KonstantinakosPublished on November 18, 2020
Yield
Makes about 16 ounces
Ingredients
Before You Begin
Sour oranges (also known as Seville, bigarade, bitter, or marmalade oranges) can be found in Latin American and Caribbean grocery stores. If you can't find them, substitute the zest of a sweet orange variety (such as navel). If you can't find 100-proof vodka, substitute 80-proof vodka, but add 1 week to the infusion time. You can purchase quassia bark chips online or in specialty spice shops. You will need a quart-size jar with a tight-fitting lid for this recipe.
Instructions
- Place orange zest, lemon zest, quassia bark chips, and coriander seeds in quart-size jar. Add vodka, cover, and shake to combine. Store jar in cool, dark place for 1 week, shaking mixture once every other day.
- Set fine-mesh strainer in medium bowl and line with triple layer of cheesecloth. Strain vodka through prepared strainer, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible; discard solids. Return infused vodka mixture to clean jar and add syrup. Cover and shake gently to combine. (Citrus Bitters can be stored in refrigerator for up to 1 year.)
Yield
Makes about 16 ouncesIngredients
Ingredients
Ingredients
Why This Recipe Works
To create our superfragrant Citrus Bitters, we settled on a combination of fresh sour orange zest (with its exquisitely floral aromas) and lemon. Quassia bark provided the backbone of clean, piney bitterness, and some grassy, lightly floral coriander seeds rounded out the citrus flavors.
Before You Begin
Sour oranges (also known as Seville, bigarade, bitter, or marmalade oranges) can be found in Latin American and Caribbean grocery stores. If you can't find them, substitute the zest of a sweet orange variety (such as navel). If you can't find 100-proof vodka, substitute 80-proof vodka, but add 1 week to the infusion time. You can purchase quassia bark chips online or in specialty spice shops. You will need a quart-size jar with a tight-fitting lid for this recipe.
Instructions
- Place orange zest, lemon zest, quassia bark chips, and coriander seeds in quart-size jar. Add vodka, cover, and shake to combine. Store jar in cool, dark place for 1 week, shaking mixture once every other day.
- Set fine-mesh strainer in medium bowl and line with triple layer of cheesecloth. Strain vodka through prepared strainer, pressing on solids to extract as much liquid as possible; discard solids. Return infused vodka mixture to clean jar and add syrup. Cover and shake gently to combine. (Citrus Bitters can be stored in refrigerator for up to 1 year.)
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