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Old Fashioned

An Old Fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and water, adding whiskey or, less commonly, brandy, and garnishing with orange slice or zest and a cocktail cherry.

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Ingredients

  • 2 fl oz. bourbon whiskey
  • 1 sugar cube sugar
  • 2 dashes angostura bitters
  • 1 splash water

Directions

  1. 1Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitters, add a dash of plain water.
  2. 2Muddle until dissolved.
  3. 3Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey. Garnish with orange twist, and a cocktail cherry.
Contributed by @alfg