fairytale of new york

Name: fairytale of new york
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Winter Warmth Syrup; 1 1/2 cups water; 1 cup raw, demerara or turbinado sugar (granulated will do just fine if you do not have them); 1/2 apple, peeled, cored, and diced; 1/2 pear, peeled, cored, and diced; 12 walnut halves; 3 cinnamon sticks, broken up; 6 whole cloves; 1 whole nutmeg; For Each Cocktail; 1 piece of orange peel (about 1 by 2 inches); 2 dashes of bitters (Fee Brothers black walnut bitters are recommended, I used orange bitters); 2 ounces bourbon, rye or Canadian whisky