Old fashion

Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.

Bourbon-or-rye Old fashion with lump sugar

White Binder Old fashion page region

Ingredients

  • 1 lump sugar, & splash of dry soda
  • Dash Angostura bitters
  • Jigger (1½ oz) bourbon or rye
  • two ice cubes; orange slice; cherry

Directions

  1. Top with orange slice or cherry.
  2. Muddle sugar, bitters, and soda in old-fashioned glass until sugar dissolves. Add two ice cubes, pour in whiskey, stir. Add orange slice, and cherry.

Temperature: Add two ice cubes.

Equipment: old-fashioned glass, muddling tool, and stirring utensil

Southern Comfort no-sugar variation

White Binder Southern Comfort Old fashion page region

Ingredients

  • No sugar please. splash of dry soda
  • Dash Angostura bitters
  • Jigger (1½ oz) Southern Comfort

Directions

  1. Add cherry, orange slice and lemon twist.
  2. Stir bitters and soda, then add ice and Southern Comfort.

Notes

  • You'll be amazed at how this simple change of basic liquor improves the taste of this great drink.
  • No sugar please; You'll be amazed at how this simple change of basic liquor improves the taste of this great drink.

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Sugar, base liquor, and garnish

White Binder Old fashion page region
1 lump sugar; bourbon or rye; top with orange slice or cherry
White Binder Southern Comfort Old fashion page region
No sugar please; Southern Comfort; add cherry, orange slice and lemon twist

Mixing order

White Binder Old fashion page region
Muddle sugar, bitters, and soda until sugar dissolves; add two ice cubes, whiskey, and stir
White Binder Southern Comfort Old fashion page region
Stir bitters and soda; then add ice and Southern Comfort

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