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By Jeanne Calitz

Difficulty Easy

Ingredients

For the spiced sugar syrup:

100 g sugar
½ cup water
1 cinnamon stick
fresh ginger, to taste
1 star anise
a few cloves

For the cocktail:

ice, for mixing
3 T vodka (or gin)
1 T spiced syrup
1 T dry vermouth
2 T clear apple juice (optional)
orange peel, for garnish

Method

1. Prepare the spiced sugar syrup in advance: simmer sugar and water with 1 cinnamon stick, sliced fresh ginger, 1 star anise and a few cloves.

2. Strain and chill; the syrup will keep well in the fridge*.

3. To a cocktail shaker filled with ice, add vodka (or gin), spiced syrup, dry vermouth and clear apple juice. Shake, pour, and garnish with orange peel.

Cook's note: *Alternatively: add a dash of syrup to brandy, whisky or cognac on ice for, quite possibly, the perfect autumn nightcap.

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Photograph: Andrea Van Der Spuy
Production: Bianca Strydom
Food assistant: Irinja Bekker

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