My Love’s Old Fashioned…
But it still works just the way it is

~ Cee Lo Green- Old Fashioned  Lyrics

Sometimes you don’t need to recreate the wheel or put a twist on something… Sometimes its perfect just the way it is…that’s why it’s lasted for so long.

George Kappeler provides some of the earliest published recipes for Old Fashioned cocktails in his 1895 book. Recipes are given for Whiskey, Brandy, Holland gin, and Old Tom gin. The Whiskey Old Fashioned recipe specifies the following

DRINK du NUIT: OLD FASHIONED

 INGREDIENTS:

• 4.5 cl Bourbon or Rye whiskey
• 2 dashes Angostura bitters
• 1 sugar cube
• Few dashes plain water

INSTRUCTIONS:

“Old Fashioned Whiskey Cocktail

Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass;

add two dashes Angostura bitters,

a small piece of ice, a piece of lemon-peel,

one jigger whiskey.

Mix with small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.”

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