Homemade Cordials are the Best: With Recipe for ‘Quarante-Quatre’

Reader Contribution by Wendy Akin
Published on February 1, 2018
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While citrus season is in full swing, make this delicious orange flavored cordial.

If you’ve followed my posts for the past couple years, you know that I like to make fruit cordials — catch up here for previous recipes for limoncello, cherry pit cordial, spiced apple cordial and a Kahlua type cordial. All of these cordials make nice little gifts.

In the liquor store there now seems to be about any flavor vodka, flavored whiskeys and brandies and even an adulterated Irish Cream. I like to make my own so I know that the flavor comes from good fruit rather than some chemical compound and I probably save money, too.

Quarante-Quatre (translates to forty-four) is a very traditional French cordial. You’ll also find it, or variations of it, where French people have settled. It combines fresh orange and coffee, a classic marriage. I choose French Roast beans, of course.

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