Cookbook:Anise Citrus Compote

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon aniseed
• 1 cup water
• 6 oranges
• 2 or 3 grapefruit
• 1 lime

Procedure

1. Combine first 3 ingredients.
2. Bring to boil and simmer 5 minutes; strain.
3. Peel oranges and grapefruit, removing all white part.
4. Cut oranges in half and slice.
5. Cut out grapefruit sections; squeeze about 1/2 cup juice from remaining membrane and add to anise syrup.
6. Arrange half the orange slices in deep bowl, then add grapefruit sections (reserve 3 for top) and remaining orange slices.
7. Top with reserved grapefruit sections.
8. Cover with anise syrup and chill.
9. At serving time, top with a lime rose: with a sharp knife, start at one end of lime and peel off a spiral strip about 1/2 inch wide, going around lime to other end.
10. Twist to form a rose.
11. Makes 4 to 6 servings.