Recipe The Old Fashioned

[The Late Night Gourmet]

I searched for this drink on this forum before posting this, and I found references to being stuck in your ways, and to donuts. Allow me to share the best use of that name out of the three.

Ingredients

1 large orange, ripe
1/2 tsp sugar
Angostura bitters
2 ounces Four Roses Kentucky bourbon
ice

Directions

1. Add sugar and bitters to the glass. I know I use more of both and traditional recipes. Do you know why I use more? Because it’s my recipe, that’s why.

2. Squeeze some of the orange juice into the glass, and swirl around. Roll around the glass to distribute the sugar. You’ll understand why in a moment if you don’t already know.

Purists may point out that there is a tradition of muddling the sugar with the little wooden stick. This way works perfectly well.

3. Spreading the sugar around like this ensures that it will all dissolve. It doesn’t bother me, but I know some drinkers of this drink can’t stand sediment sugar on the bottom of the glass: it’s considered bad form. I just like it to be dissolved completely. These were exceptionally ripe oranges, and there was a lot of juice.

4. Add bourbon, and squeeze remaining juice into the glass. Stir to incorporate.

5. Most makers of this drink have already added ice, and they squeeze the juice into it. I like making sure the sugar is fully dissolved and the bourbon distributed, THEN adding ice as appropriate.

 

[Morning Glory]

Its a bit co-incidental as I was looking at ways to use Angostura yesterday and came across a recipe for this. Maybe I need to make one.

 

[TastyReuben]

The Old-Fashioned, considered the granddaddy of cocktails! It's my favorite and the one I always order when we go out for a nice meal.

 

[rascal]

The Old-Fashioned, considered the granddaddy of cocktails! It's my favorite and the one I always order when we go out for a nice meal.

How many would you suggest? 15 ?? Lmao.

Russ

 

[detroitdad]

Most call for simple syrup. Are you considering the fresh orange juice as a substitute?

 

[The Late Night Gourmet]

Most call for simple syrup. Are you considering the fresh orange juice as a substitute?

Simple syrup is basically just sugar dissolved into water. Now that I think of it, I usually add an ice cube to the juiced orange to dissolve the sugar. But, as I mentioned, these were very ripe oranges, so there was plenty of juice there already. I never thought of buying simple syrup because it's easy enough to make (and, I'm too lazy to actually make it, hence the method I use to dissolve the sugar).

 

[TastyReuben]

Simple syrup is basically just sugar dissolved into water. Now that I think of it, I usually add an ice cube to the juiced orange to dissolve the sugar. But, as I mentioned, these were very ripe oranges, so there was plenty of juice there already. I never thought of buying simple syrup because it's easy enough to make (and, I'm too lazy to actually make it, hence the method I use to dissolve the sugar).

Most of the time, I just make "bar simple syrup," a no-cook version using superfine quick-dissolve sugar (normally available at any Kroger or other major grocery) and water.

Put the sugar in a jar, put in the water, and shake until it dissolves. POOF! Instant simple syrup. It what a lot of bars do, hence the name.

 

[detroitdad]