Spiced arancello

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• Mismatched

  09 October 2010

  Mismatched commented on this recipe

  I'm just about to try making this - just wanted to add that Ikea is a really great place for cheap decorative glass bottles and kilner-style jars for mking this.

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• LexieLou_London

  09 November 2010

  LexieLou_London rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I've made this for the last two years - it's always been a highly appreciated gift. I would suggest making it as early as possible. (I've missed the opportunity this year - and it's only early Nov). When it's "young" it's good - but if you hide a bottle at the back of the cupboard - steep the orange and spices for 3 months in the dark then do the syrup and then hide it in the cupoard - for a year it's EVEN better. I'm sure this would really put you off actually tackling it - but it's not a labour heavy recipe and it's so worth it. you could give as a gift and say "dont' open until next Christmas"! My lovely lyrical friend described it as "Christmas in a glass".

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• EmSmith

  17 November 2010

  EmSmith commented on this recipe

  I set mine going yesterday and it's happily steeping away in a jar waiting for step two. It already smells and looks fantastic. Very exciting!

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• Donxy

  18 November 2010

  Donxy commented on this recipe

  I made this last year and everyone loved it. It really is 'Christmas in a glass'. About to get this years batch going. I have some left from last year and it's even better now it's older

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• amanda

  04 December 2010

  amanda commented on this recipe

  Fantastic recipe.Did reduce the quantity of sugar by 100g and its still sweet enough over ice.Have just had to make another batch as my dads visiting,tried it and wanted a bottle,so am making more for both of us as the original bottle won't last the week!

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• clarebear

  11 December 2010

  clarebear commented on this recipe

  can't get vanilla pods here! will it make a huge difference and is there anything I could use instead?!

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• miranda

  16 January 2011

  miranda rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Made this for Christmas presents this year; really well received. I cheated with the vanilla pods as I was making in bulk and it would have been very expensive to buy loads of vanilla pods.. so I found 'vanilla bean paste' in Waitrose and added half a teaspoon to each recipe instead which seemed fine. I also reduced the sugar content by a third - was still very sweet, especially with the vanilla. I struggled to find suitable presentation bottles so initially used the 'Bottle Green' cordial bottles as suggested by someone else here, but the labels are a nightmare to remove! After the first 3 I went hunting for other screw top bottles and ended up using Fentiman's root beer/ginger beer/curiosity cola etc bottles. These are smaller (500ml) so results in more presents for people, and the labels just fall off in the sink - even better! Made my own gift labels to add to the plain bottles and they looked quite sweet.

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• alex.eire

  15 February 2011

  alex.eire rated and commented on this recipe

  

  It is a lovely after dinner drink and is a nice alternative to limoncello. Well worth trying over vanilla ice-cream as previously suggested

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• Nelly

  07 April 2011

  Nelly rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Too sweet

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• sophia

  14 November 2011

  sophia rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this and gave to friends and family for Christmas, changed it only by instead of decorating and using the fruit and spices mentioned, I bought from Marks and Spencer the mixed christmas bag of spices and dried fruit which included cranberry and cloves etc. Was a Great success and lovely looking presents!

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• Cookie

  20 November 2011

  Cookie commented on this recipe

  Is it possible that I could just use Vanilla Extract as a substitute for the pods? Living in Canada and pods are very hard to come by and the paste is quite pricey!

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• liznfil

  25 November 2011

  liznfil commented on this recipe

  BOTTLES! I made double quantity, it's nearly ready for bottling, smells lovely. Lots of questions re bottles. I bought a 5 litre bottle of water and used the bottle to make it in -the neck is wide enough to add the peel etc. and easy to do the shaking. That cost £1 from Tesco. Then went internet searching and I found bottles expensive, even in Ikea. So suggest Google Warnes of Knutford. I've just received 12 500ml "pop bottles" complete with lids and including P&P cost less than £12. They have posher bottles too, but I thought with a bit of ribbon or raffia, these will be just fine.

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• bbems60

  04 December 2011

  bbems60 commented on this recipe

  cant wait to make this, and thanks to liznfil for the link to the fantastic bottles website.

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• grizell

  04 December 2011

  grizell commented on this recipe

  Am going to make this this week and just wanted to share some shopping tips. I bought my vanilla pods on ebay for a lot less than in the shops and clear glass wine bottles can be found at Roys and Wilkinsons for about £5 for 6. Hope that helps!

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• WendyKr

  10 December 2011

  WendyKr commented on this recipe

  After reading all of the above, I've just done stage two and only added half of the sugar water (300g sugar plus 250ml water) and it tastes sweet enough for me! I suppose the only drawback is that the shelf life might be shorter, but I doubt if it will last long around my lot anyway...... Will update next week after bottling ceremony :-)

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• Dani

  12 December 2011

  Dani commented on this recipe

  I can't find proper cinnamon. The packets here all use Cassia (though they are marked cinnamon). I know this has a stronger flavour? Will this make much of a difference? Make it too strong/bitter?

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• seccles

  06 January 2012

  seccles rated and commented on this recipe

  

  We did this for Christmas. Doubled the ingredients,used cheap vodka, and only used 1000g of sugar. It tasted really nice and went down really well with the family. We found bargin wine bottles from Wilkinson online;6 clear bottles for under £5.

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• Dizzy13

  03 February 2012

  Dizzy13 rated and commented on this recipe

  

  Nice but very very sweet

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• littlechef87

  28 October 2012

  littlechef87 commented on this recipe

  You can buy nice bottles on ebay for much cheaper than Lakeland etc - I'll be doing this and making gallons of the stuff!

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• Lorraine

  31 October 2012

  Lorraine rated and commented on this recipe

  

  We've made this for the last 2 years and everyone loves it. We serve it topped up with CAVA and it tastes amazing. 'Christmas in a glass' as a few have already mentioned.

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Ingredients

• 5 large oranges
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2-3 cardamom pods
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1l bottle vodka
• 600g caster sugar
• a few extra oranges, cinnamon sticks, cardamom and vanilla pods , to bottle

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Makes about 2.5 litres

Preparation and cooking times

Cook 1 hr

Ingredients

• 5 large oranges
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2-3 cardamom pods
• 1 vanilla pod
• 1l bottle vodka
• 600g caster sugar
• a few extra oranges, cinnamon sticks, cardamom and vanilla pods , to bottle

PER SERVING (85ml)

179 kcalories, protein 0g, carbohydrate 27g, fat 0 g, saturated fat 0g, fibre 0g, sugar 27g, salt 0 g

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