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Bartending/Cocktails/Old Fashioned
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The Old Fashioned cocktail is a pre-Prohibition American cocktail.
Ingredients
1 shot Rye
Half-slice of orange
1 tsp Sugar (or simple syrup)
Angostura bitters
Garnishes
Maraschino Cherry
Orange
Glass
Old-Fashioned Glass
Instructions
Place sugar in glass; add water (~1 tsp) to dissolve
Muddle in bitters and orange slice
Fill with ice, add whiskey
Garnish with cherry
Variations
The amount of whiskey may be increased
The Brandy Old Fashioned is popular in some areas, and a rum analogue can be made as well
This drink is also often served in a highball glass instead of its namesake old-fashioned glass
Recipe for San Diego Old Fashioned
This recipe was contributed by Big V, who was clued in to Old Fashioned cocktails by her grandpa Sid. In Sid's words, "An Old Fashioned is the best drink in the world. It's like an alcoholic lemonade".
2 oz bourbon (try to find one with an intense toffee finish)
2 maraschino cherries
The juice of 2 maraschino cherries
1/4 lime
1/2 lemon
1/2 orange
2 oz drinking water
2 oz Perrier
4 ice cubes
12 oz Mason jar
Muddle cherries in cherry juice in the bottom of Mason jar
Squeeze in the juices of all citrus fruits
Add drinking water
Add Perrier
Add ice cubes
Add bourbon
Stir
References
Renewing an Old Fashion, by Robert Hess, discusses the evolution of this drink and takes a stand against the use of club soda in the cocktail.
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