Quarante Quatre
By: Karlyn Oyama
Published: Wednesday, December 9, 2009 - 12:32am

Ingredients




4 Navel orange
5 liters white rum
22 Cup minus 4 teaspoons Sugar (optional)
44 cloves

Preparation

1 Take a Navel orange and deeply pierce it with a spanner twice 2 Stuff 44 cloves into the slits. 3 Place the orange in a large widemouthed jar 4 Add five liters of white rum. 5 Add 1 cup minus 4 teaspoons of sugar. 6 Seal and store in a cool dark place for 44 days.

About


The French version of the Madagascan cocktail, The 44 Cordial, the Quarante Quatre is clove and orange infused rum that has "brewed" for no less than 44 days.

Comments:
Sally P

Sounds interesting - but how do you drink it?  Do you mix it with anything?  Orange juice, soda, ginger beer?
Louise Cross

I made a similar thing, but it was an orange with 44 coffee beans inserted into the skin, 44 spoons of sugar, in vodka and left for 44 days...we drank it like a liqueur
bobbi mason

it don't matter how you drink it just drink it lol
Jim

I just found this recipe on another site that called for 1 liter of rum and all else the same. Quite a difference. Which is correct?
Barnaby Dorfman

I've done it with 5 liters and it was good, but you can vary the ratio of rum to sugar depending on your personal taste for sweetness in drinks