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Directions:1. Pour the simple syrup into an Old Fashioned glass, add the bitters 2. Add ice cubes to glass 3. Pour in the rye (or bourbon) 4. Squeeze 1/4 orange segment into glass 5. Garnish with an orange slice and a maraschino cherry
Serve with a stirring rod, and garnish with an orange slice if you're so inclined. |
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Notes: Basically the OG cocktail, the first reference to this drink—as well as the first published definition of the word "cocktail"—came in the May 13, 1806 edition of a newspaper called The Balance and Columbian Repository. It was there that the paper's editor referred to a cocktail as consisting of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar.
As for the name "Old Fashioned," that didn't come about until 1881, when a bartender at the Pendennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky made the drink—this time with bourbon, bitters, club soda, muddled sugar, and ice—to honor Colonel James E. Pepper, a prominent bourbon distiller, who eventually brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.
All of which is to say, it's a cocktail that's been around for a while. And for good reason. The subtle sweetness makes it smoother than a lot of other whiskey-based drinks, plus it just has that aura of Rat Pack cool. Fortunately, it's also an easy cocktail to make. Almost as easy as it is to drink.
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