- 1 navel orange
- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 3 whole star anise
- a 1-liter bottle Absolut vodka
- Wash and dry orange. Beginning at 1 end, with a vegetable peeler carefully remove a long strip of zest in a spiral from half of orange and add with spices to bottle of vodka. Let vodka stand at room temperature 3 days. Freeze aquavit in bottle at least 8 hours, or until ice-cold, and up to 3 days. (Because of its high alcohol content, aquavit will remain liquid.)
- Pour aquavit into a decanter and serve ice-cold.