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Ingredients

  • 2 pounds (about 4) oranges, each cut into 16 pieces
  • Two 750-ml bottles dry white wine
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/4 cup Cognac
  • Garnish: long strips of orange zest removed with a vegetable peeler

Method

  • In a large bowl, combine the oranges and the wine and chill the mixture, covered tightly with plastic wrap, for 5 days.
  • Discard the oranges, add the sugar and the Cognac, and stir the mixture until the sugar is dissolved.
  • Strain the mixture through a sieve lined with a double thickness of rinsed and squeezed cheesecloth into a bowl and pour the wine into decorative bottles with corks.
  • Insert a strip of the orange zest into each bottle and chill the wine, corked, for one week.
  • The wine keeps, chilled for 3 months.