Winter means blood orange cocktail recipes

Ingredients

• 2/3 Cup Sugar
• 1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
• Water
• 1 1/2 Tablespoons Herbs de Provence
• 1/3 Cup Red Wine Vinegar
• 2/3 Cup Blood Orange Juice
• 1 Ounce Vodka

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Preparation

• Add sugar and lemon to a 2 quart saucepan. Add just enough water to cover bottom of pan. Stir to mix the ingredients together.
• Turn the heat to medium high and continue cooking until it starts turning brown. Do not stir.
• Once the sugar is turning brown, slowly stir in the vinegar, blood orange juice and spices.
• Continue stirring, while on the heat. Reduce mixture by half. Remove from heat and let cool.
• Pour syrup through a strainer to remove large solids. Cut a piece of cheesecloth and wet it with water.
• Line the strainer with the cheesecloth and strain a second time. To make the cocktail, fill a small rocks glass with crushed ice.
• Pour 1 ounce of the Blood Orange gastrique into the glass. Pour 1 ounce of vodka into the glass. Stir.
• Garnish with a sprig of thyme and a blood orange slice.