Cocktail recipe
Old Fashioned
Whiskey in its most elemental form: amber, aromatic, and deliberately unhurried.
Ingredients
- {'name': 'Bourbon or rye whiskey', 'amount_ml': 60}
- {'name': 'Sugar cube', 'quantity': 1, 'unit': 'cube'}
- {'name': 'Aromatic bitters', 'quantity_range': [2, 3], 'unit': 'dashes'}
- {'name': 'Water', 'amount_ml': 5}
Preparation
Place the sugar cube in an old-fashioned glass. Add the bitters and water, then muddle until dissolved. Add the whiskey and ice. Stir gently. Garnish with orange zest or an orange slice and a cherry.
Glassware
Old-fashioned / rocks glass
History
{'text': 'The Old Fashioned grew from the nineteenth-century practice of ordering a cocktail in its older, simpler form: spirit, sugar, water and bitters. That formula closely resembles the printed definition of a cocktail from 1806, but the drink was not called an Old Fashioned then. The name was in circulation by 1880. A later claim that the Pendennis Club in Louisville invented it is not supported by the earlier printed record.', 'status': 'RESEARCH_TEXT_FINAL_HISTORY_APPROVAL_PENDING'}
Mixology View
Restraint is the point: whiskey leads, sugar rounds, bitters define.