Ingredients

• 1 navel orange
• 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
• 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
• 3 whole star anise*
• a 1-liter bottle Absolut vodka
• *available at specialty foods shops and Asian markets and by mail order from Adriana's Caravan, tel. (800) 316-0820

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Instructions

1. Wash and dry orange. Beginning at 1 end, with a vegetable peeler carefully remove a long strip of zest in a spiral from half of orange and add with spices to bottle of vodka. Let vodka stand at room temperature 3 days. Freeze aquavit in bottle at least 8 hours, or until ice-cold, and up to 3 days. (Because of its high alcohol content, aquavit will remain liquid.)
2. Pour aquavit into a decanter and serve ice-cold.