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Old Fashioned
The original cocktail: spirit, sugar, bitters, ice. Everything else is a variation on it.
Ingredients
- 60 ml bourbon
- 10 ml sugar syrup
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- A wide strip of orange peel
- Ice
Method
- Put the sugar syrup and bitters in a rocks glass and add the bourbon.
- Fill the glass with ice — one big cube if you've got one, it melts slower — and stir for about 30 seconds until the outside of the glass is cold.
- Squeeze the strip of orange peel over the top so the oil lands on the drink, wipe it round the rim, and drop it in.