Recipe for orange peel tincture

Orange and lemon peels often end up in the waste bin. If you have a bottle of vodka and a piece of ginger root at hand, you can make a warming tincture that's perfect for autumn and winter evenings.

• the peels of two oranges or lemons
• 2 dag of fresh ginger root
• 0,7 l vodka
• approximately 0,25 kg of sugar

Combine citrus peels peeled of aldebo (white layer) with sliced ginger and infuse with alcohol for a week. After a week, pour off the liquor and sweeten as desired. You may not add sugar at all. This will produce a bitter, dry tincture. The tincture requires clarification for a month. As with any ginger liqueur, orange or lemon peel liqueur precipitates sediment and requires filtering.