Recipe For Old Fashioned Drink
When using granulated sugar rather than a cube it s common to add 1 teaspoon of water then stir until the sugar dissolves.
Recipe for old fashioned drink. Whiskey cocktail which became old fashioned whiskey cocktail and then just old fashioned it is a stirred drink usually built in the glass in which it is served. The old fashioned is one of the oldest mixed drinks in the cocktail canon. Try bourbon rye or a blended whiskey in this cocktail.
Serve with a swizzle stick. Simply make a 2 1 sugar syrup and while it s still warm put a lapsang souchong teabag in the syrup and leave to infuse for half an hour. Wet it down with angostura bitters and a short splash of club soda.
Smoky old fashioned to add a hint of smoke infuse your sugar syrup. Place the sugar cube in an old fashioned glass. Then make your old fashioned as normal.
Garnish with a slice of orange and a maraschino cherry. You can also sub one sugar cube for the simple syrup. To a standard old fashioned glass add your sugar cube 1 or 2 dashes of angostura bitters or a similar style of bitters and a bar spoon s worth of water.
One of the great classic bourbon cocktails the old fashioned was invented in louisville ky. Alternatively use a splash barely 1 teaspoon of simple syrup instead of granulated sugar mixing it with the bitters before adding ice and whiskey. Crush the sugar with a wooden muddler then rotate the glass so that the sugar.
Both rye and bourbon are suitable base spirits. Pour in whiskey and stir for an additional minute. Garnish with a lemon twist.