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Orange bitters
Orange bitters are a concentrated, bittersweet flavouring made from orange peel and aromatic botanicals, used in dashes to add citrus-forward complexity to stirred cocktails. They are distinct from Angostura bitters, which lean more toward baking-spice notes.
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Common uses
- dashed into stirred gin and vodka cocktails for citrus complexity
Buying & storage
Keeps more or less indefinitely: Alcohol is preserving it. An open bottle keeps for a very long time, though aromatics do fade slowly.
Storage: keeps indefinitely at room temperature
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where orange bitters is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Martinezin place of angostura bitters
Swap it
Possible substitutions
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