Spiced Orangeade Food

ORANGEADE

Steps:

• Bring 2 cups water and sugar to a boil in a small saucepan; cook at a boil for 3 minutes, stirring to dissolve sugar, and creating a simple syrup.
• Combine simple syrup, 6 cups water, orange juice, and lemon juice in a large pitcher; refrigerate until cold.

HONEY ORANGEADE

Steps:

• Fill four 12-ounce glasses with ice. Divide the Orange Honey Syrup among the glasses, then top with the seltzer. Stir to combine and garnish with orange slices.
• Stir together the orange juice, orange peel and honey in a small saucepan over medium heat until the mixture is hot and the honey has dissolved. Remove from the heat and let come to room temperature.

ORANGE ICE TEA

Steps:

• Special equipment: a 60-ounce (7 1/2 cups) pitcher
• For the syrup: In a small saucepan, bring the orange juice and sugar to a boil over medium-high heat. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sugar has dissolved, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool for 20 minutes.
• For the tea: In a small saucepan, bring the water to a boil. Add the tea bags and remove the pan from the heat. Allow the tea to steep and cool to room temperature, about 20 minutes. Remove the tea bags and discard. Pour the tea and syrup into a pitcher and refrigerate until ready to serve.
• To serve: Pour the sparkling water into the pitcher and add the orange slices. Pour the tea into 4 ice-filled glasses. Garnish with fresh mint, or basil, and serve.

SPICED FRESH ORANGE AND HONEY SORBET

Steps:

• Combine first 8 ingredients in heavy large saucepan. Bring to boil over medium-high heat, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil until syrup is thick and mixture is reduced to 2 cups, about 12 minutes. Discard bay leaf; cool syrup.
• Strain syrup into medium bowl. Add orange juice and lemon juice. Transfer to ice cream maker and process according to manufacturer's instructions. Transfer sorbet to container, cover, and freeze until firm, at least 6 hours and up to 3 days.

SPICED ORANGEADE

Steps:

• Bring sugar and 2 cups water to a boil in a small pot. Reduce heat; simmer, stirring, until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat; stir in coriander and orange zest. Cover, and let steep 2 hours. Simple syrup can be refrigerated up to 2 weeks. Strain before using.
• Combine syrup and juices in a 3-quart pitcher, and refrigerate until cold, at least 2 hours and up to 2 days. Serve over ice.

ROMANIAN ORANGEADE

Steps:

• Squeeze the lemons and oranges. Strain the juice through cheese cloth. (Unless you use a self straining juicer.).
• Dissolve the sugar in water, add the lemon and orange juices, pour in a bottle/pitcher with one piece of orange peel and refrigerate. Serve cold after a few hours.

SPICE ROASTED FRUITS WITH HONEY & ORANGE SAUCE

Steps:

• The day before: tear the bay leaves and break the cinnamon into two or three pieces to release the oils and perfumes. Split the vanilla pod in half and scrape out the seeds with the back of a knife. Mix with the star anise seeds and the pepper, orange zest and juice, honey and sugar to make a sauce. Cover and chill until ready to serve.
• Half an hour before serving: Preheat the oven to 200C/gas 6/fan 180C. Cut the peaches or nectarines in half and remove the stones. Halve the figs. Put the peaches or nectarines skin-side down in a large baking dish or a roasting tray with sides. Pour the spicy sauce over the fruit and dot with the butter.Roast in the oven for 10 minutes, add the figs and baste the fruits with a large spoon.Roast for 15 minutes more, basting at least three times, until the fruits are tender. Serve with crème fraîche and macaroons or amaretti biscuits to soak up all the lovely juices.

ORANGE SHANDY

Steps:

• Fill 8 glasses with ice. Divide orangeade among glasses. Top off each glass with beer, and stir gently.

SPICED ORANGE COOKIES

Steps:

• Cream together the sugar and butter in a large mixing bowl.
• Grate one orange to collect the zest. Squeeze the juice of the excess orange into the mixture Crack in the egg, add the honey and stir to combine.
• Sift in the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg. Add the zest of one orange and mix together thoroughly.
• Mix in the chocolate chunks.
• Put the mixture in the fridge for 2 hours to chill, if desired. This step is not essential, but will improve the texture and flavour of the cookies.
• Set the oven to 200 degrees C. Spoon the mixture and roll into balls of your desired size.
• Place the cookie dough balls on baking paper covered trays. Make sure to leave plenty of space for each cookie as they will grow a lot when baking.
• Bake for 13 minutes and remove. Keep the cookies on the tray for a further 10-15 minutes as they will continue to bake outside of the oven. Do not attempt to transfer the cookies off the tray beforehand as they will still be a little sloppy before they firm up.

ORANGEADE

Steps:

• In a large pitcher, stir together juice and seltzer or club soda and garnish with orange slices. Serve in tall glasses half-filled with ice.

ORANGE-SPICED CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a small bowl, combine the first five ingredients. Pour 1/2 cup marinade into a large resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Seal bag and turn to coat; refrigerate for 2 hours. Cover and refrigerate remaining marinade., Drain and discard marinade. Moisten a paper towel with cooking oil; using long-handled tongs, lightly coat the grill rack. Grill chicken, covered, over medium heat or broil 4 in. from the grill for 5-7 minutes on each side or until a thermometer reads 170°, basting frequently with reserved marinade.