Quinine Syrup

11 ingredients
3 steps

Ingredients

  • Quinine Tincture:
  • 6 grams powdered cinchona bark (red will be more assertive, yellow is milder and less bitter)
  • 150 milliliters vodka
  • Aromatics:
  • 20 grams citric acid
  • 10 grams whole gentian root
  • 2 grams Ceylon soft-stick cinnamon, broken by hand into small pieces
  • 30 grams lemon peel, peeled with a vegetable peeler
  • 30 grams grapefruit peel, peeled with a vegetable peeler
  • 400 grams sugar
  • 500 milliliters water

Directions

  1. 1
    To make the tincture: Dissolve the powdered cinchona bark in the vodka. Mix well, and then strain through a paper coffee filter fitted into a strainer (or a filter cone, if you have one) and suspend over a large enough container to accommodate the final volume of vodka. This process could take up to 1 hour, so don't worry if it seems like nothing is happening. (The tincture lasts forever.)
  2. 2
    To make the aromatics: Combine all the ingredients for the aromatics in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium heat just until boiling, reduce the heat to low, and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes. Strain out the solids and let the liquid cool.
  3. 3
    Stir 1 1/2 ounces (45 milliliters) of the quinine tincture into the cooled aromatics, and then bottle. Seal tightly and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.

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