How to make the Old Fashioned cocktail drink, with history.
The Old Fashioned is maybe one of the first drinks to actually be called a cocktail. The Old Fashioned bar glass is named after this mixed drink. The Old Fashioned cocktail is listed as top six in essential cocktails. Many think this is what a classic cocktail should contain: a spirit, a sweet, a bitter, a sour and water.
We can trace the origins of this cocktail back to the 1880's. The first use of the name "Old Fashioned" was used at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen’s club located in Louisville, Kentucky. It was created by a bartender at the club.
The drink as many variations and evolutions, we will cover the most popular of the Old fashioned recipes in this article.
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| The Old Fashioned Cocktail Drink |
Old Fashioned Recipe (Oldest 1895)
Ingredients:
• 1.5 ounce or a jigger 44 ml of Whiskey (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, etc.)
• Sugar Cube
• Lemon Peel
• Angostura Bitters
Mixing Procedure:
1. Dissolve a lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass
2. Add two dashes Angostura bitters,
3. Add a small piece ice
4. A piece lemon-peel
5. Add the jigger of whiskey.
6. Mix the cocktail with a small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.
Old Fashioned Recipe (two)
Ingredients:
• 1 Sugar cube
• 2-3 Dashes of Angostura bitters
• 2 Orange slices
• 3 Ounce Bourbon Whiskey (Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Wild Turkey, etc.)
• Maraschino cherry for garnish
Preparation:
Place the sugar cube at the bottom of an old-fashioned glass. Saturate the cube with the bitters. Add one orange slice. Muddle these ingredients. Fill the glass with ice cubes. Add the bourbon. Stir well. Garnish with a second orange slice and a maraschino cherry.
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