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Spirit-forward · Built in glass · Historical · complexity 3/5

Old Fashioned Cocktail

An old fashioned whiskey cocktail with sugar, seltzer, orange and Angostura bitters, and lemon peel.

Served in Old fashioned cocktail glass. Ice: One piece.

Variants (2)

How to Mix Drinks by George L. Spaulding and W. Rositer (1906, p.15) — Spaulding and Rositer 1906, cocktails section

1 piecelemon peel acid
1 lumpSugar cube — sugarbase
0.5 wineglassWhiskey — Whiskeybase
1 dashAngostura bitters bitter
1 dashorange bitters bitter
1 dashseltzer — seltzer waterdilution
  1. Use old fashioned cocktail glass, crush sugar with seltzer, add ice, bitters, lemon peel, and whiskey, stir gently, and leave spoon in glass.

Garnish: Lemon peel

Ice: One piece

Famous New Orleans Drinks and How to Mix 'Em by Stanley Clisby Arthur (1938, p.20)

1 wholelemon peel — Lemon peelacid
1 jiggerrye whiskey — Rye whiskeybase
1 wholesugar — Sugarbase
2 dashAromatic bitters — Peychaud or Angostura bittersbitter
1 wholeOrange peel — Orange peel half-ringgarnish
1 wholepineapple — Pineapple chunkgarnish
2 wholeMaraschino cherry — Maraschino cherriesmodifier
  1. Crush the sugar with the bitters in a heavy-bottomed bar glass.
  2. Add rye and several lumps of ice, then stir.
  3. Leave the drink in the mixing glass, garnish with orange peel, pineapple, and cherries, express lemon peel over the top, and serve with the barspoon.

Garnish: Orange peel, pineapple, maraschino cherries, and expressed lemon peel