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Subject: Re: Old Fashioned
From: DrinkBoy
Posted: Thu Dec 25. 2003, 00:20 UTC
Followup to: "Old Fashioned"  by Jess Dixon  (Mon Dec 22. 2003, 20:33 UTC)
> Can anyone give me a good recipie and how to mix an "old fashioned"?
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As George mentioned, simple syrup is the secret here.

Original recipes for the Old Fashioned used granulated sugar (never use 
powdered sugar in cocktails), but they also included a splash of water along 
with the bitters at the very beginning which would be muddled together to make 
a quick simple syrup in the glass. (note: this "splash" of water would be 
equal in volume to the amount of sugar used.) However, the modern bartender 
has mistakenly translated this "splash" of water not to be used to dissolve 
the dugar, but instead to be used to "top off" the drink at the end... And 
with soda water at that!

I have learned that here in the US you have a better chance of winning the 
lottery then to find a bartender who knows the right way to make an Old 
Fashioned.

So... Here is the recipe for the ultimate Old Fashioned:

Using an Old Fasioned glass
1 tsp simple syrup
2 to 3 dashes  Angostura bitters
stir
-fill with ice-
2 ounces bourbon (or American rye)
-stir WELL-
Garnish with orange wheel and cherry.
Optional: you can lightly muddle a half orange wheel with the bitters an 
sugar (but never a cherry)

-Robert
 www.DrinkBoy.com


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