Shrubb - Antilles

Total Time: 192 hrs 10 mins Preparation Time: 192 hrs Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• 1 quart rum
• 5 oranges, zest of
• 1 pint water
• 2 lbs unbleached cane sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 vanilla bean

Recipe

• 1 take the zest from 5 oranges, and let this dry for 5 days.
• 2 when they are dry, macerate them in rum for 3 days, leaving the jar used outdoors in light sun (semi-shade).
• 3 filter this liquid.
• 4 make a syrup with the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and the vanilla bean. (slit the vanilla bean to release full flavor into the syrup.).
• 5 bring this to the boil, lower the heat, but keep it bubbling away for 10 - 15 minutes. skim the surface frequently.
• 6 let the syrup cool.
• 7 add the syrup to the filtered rum. filter this, and bottle it, or pour it into a large, clean juice jar with a lid.
• 8 this recipe will yield about 75cl, the same volume as a bottle of wine.