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Old Fashioned

The original cocktail: spirit, sugar, bitters, ice. Everything else is a variation on it.

1 drink 5 ingredients 3 steps
Old Fashioned

Ingredients

  • 60 ml bourbon
  • 10 ml sugar syrup
  • 2 dashes Angostura bitters
  • A wide strip of orange peel
  • Ice

Method

  1. Put the sugar syrup and bitters in a rocks glass and add the bourbon.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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