Krangostura Bitters

Name: Krangostura Bitters
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 5
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 59 milliliters cinchona bark (available at Kalustyans and Herbs of Mexico.); 59 milliliters whole black cardamom; 57 grams Indonesian cinnamon (about 16 2 long sticks, or 8 full-size); 237 milliliters muscovado sugar; 400 milliliters About Everclear 190 or highest available proof neutral grain spirit; 177 milliliters blades of mace; 2 Meyer Lemons and 1 Cara Cara orange, for peels added after two weeks; 3 Tbsps blackstrap molasses; 158 milliliters black raisins; 1 teaspoon heaping teaspoon gentian root (available as chips and twigs from Mountain Rose Herbs); 237 milliliters water; 2 Tbsps whole allspice berries

Need a gluten free and dairy free main course? Krangostura Bitters could be an amazing recipe to try. This recipe covers 29% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains around 15g of protein, 21g of fat, and a total of 911 calories. This recipe serves 5. A mixture of cinchona bark, cardamom, indonesian cinnamon, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. To use up the grain blend you could follow this main course with the Honeyed Yogurt and Mixed Berries with Whole-Grain Waffles as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 45 minutes.

Instructions

Loosely mash cloves, cardamom, mace, and allspice in a mortar and pestle to release oils—just a few good bashes, not enough to pulverize.

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Allspice

Cardamom

Clove

Ground Mace

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Mortar And Pestle

Add to 750 milliliter airtight nonreactive container.

Add cinchona bark, gentian root, cinnamon, raisins, and molasses and cover with enough alcohol that solids are submerged and there's an additional half-inch of alcohol in the container. Store in a dark place and shake daily.

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Cinnamon

Molasses

Alcohol

Raisins

Bark

After two weeks of daily shaking, peel Meyer lemons and Cara Cara orange. Open container and add peels, tearing up peels by hand to release essential oils. Reseal container and store in a dark place, continuing to shake daily.

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Meyer Lemon

Orange

Shake

At the end of the fourth week, strain the solid ingredients through cheesecloth and set the strained alcohol aside.

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Alcohol

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Cheesecloth

To make dilution liquid, place solid ingredients in a soup pot and cover with 4 cups water. Bring this mixture to a boil for about 15 minutes to infuse the flavor of the ingredients into the water.

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Water

Soup

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Let cool and strain through cheesecloth. Measure the strained alcohol and mix with an equal amount of strained dilution liquid.

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Alcohol

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Cheesecloth

To make muscovado simple syrup, heat 1 cup water with 1 cup of muscovado sugar and stir until sugar dissolves.

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Muscovado Sugar

Simple Syrup

Sugar

Water

Let cool.

Add 3/4 cup simple syrup to the diluted bitters mixture.

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Simple Syrup

Bitters

At this point, you should check for clarity by pour some bitters into a clear glass container and holding it up to the light. If you are satisfied with the clarity, consider yourself done. If you'd like to remove any present sediment, either pass bitters through a coffee filter or multiple layers (5+) of cheesecloth and repeat until you've reached desired clarity.

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Bitters

Coffee