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Old Fashioned

strong · served in a rocks

Old Fashioned

The Don Draper drink. Bourbon, sugar, and bitters stirred slowly over ice with an orange peel. Bold, no-nonsense, and never out of style.

Ingredients

  • ·2 oz bourbon or rye whiskey
  • ·1 sugar cube (or 1/2 tsp simple syrup)
  • ·2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • ·Splash of water
  • ·Orange peel and maraschino cherry to garnish

Method

Place sugar cube in a rocks glass and saturate with bitters and a splash of water. Muddle until dissolved. Add a large ice cube and pour in the whiskey. Stir gently. Express orange peel over the glass, drop it in, and add a cherry.

Pour slowly. Sip slower.