Orange Wine

• 2 pounds (about 4) oranges, each cut into 16 pieces
• Two 750-ml bottles dry white wine
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 cup Cognac
• Garnish: long strips of orange zest removed with a vegetable peeler

1. In a large bowl, combine the oranges and the wine and chill the mixture, covered tightly with plastic wrap, for 5 days.
2. Discard the oranges, add the sugar and the Cognac, and stir the mixture until the sugar is dissolved.
3. Strain the mixture through a sieve lined with a double thickness of rinsed and squeezed cheesecloth into a bowl and pour the wine into decorative bottles with corks.
4. Insert a strip of the orange zest into each bottle and chill the wine, corked, for one week.
5. The wine keeps, chilled for 3 months.

oranges, sugar, cognac, long strips of orange

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/orange-wine-200703 (may not work)