Anisado wine or anisette (as I found out in Google) is an essential ingredient whenever we make Pork Estofado at home. Out of curiosity, I tasted it and find it bittersweet like gin or vodka but with tons of sugar in it. It also had a vanilla essence that made it pleasing to the nose. Searching for more in Google, I found out that it is also used mainly in processed meat making like tocino , longganisa , etc. I assume it has this preservative effect on the food and mostly likely indeed the estofado we cook at home are made in big batches that it often last for days. As what they say the older it gets the more delicious and flavourful it becomes. And speaking of estofado , though I didn't cook this one, I have a recipe that stemmed out from my experimentation at work before. I just cooked it using the taste memories I had at home and with some additional ingredients. But everybody loved my estofado that time that even I made a bi...