Old Fashioned Recipe Using Sugar

For home use 1 cup sugar and a cup water makes plenty of syrup.

Old fashioned recipe using sugar. Garnish with an orange peel and cinnamon stick. Muddle with a spoon until the sugar is dissolved. Pour the simple syrup water and bitters into a whiskey glass.

For much of the 20th century the old fashioned was muddled with an orange slice and topped with a splash of club soda and a maraschino cherry. Pour bourbon over the ice and garnish with the orange slice and maraschino cherry. It s a nice drink but many bartenders have reverted to the simpler version.

Use your muddler to crush the sugar cube until it has completely dissolved in the bitters and water. Whisk together the egg sugar vanilla and cinnamon in a small bowl. Muddle until sugar is dissolved.

Set the heat to low and stir the mixture until the sugar is dissolved being sure to not let the syrup boil. Cool then keep stored in a glass jar in the refrigerator up to one month. Add enough ice to fill glass.

I recommend that the sugar used in the old fashioned be in the form of a simple syrup sugar dissolved in water simple syrup blends best when mixing cocktails because it s already in liquid form. Add sugar water and bitters to glass. A rich simple syrup is easy to make just combine 2 parts sugar and 1 part water in a pan.

Some cocktail purists advocate for only using sugar cubes when making an old fashioned but i find it to be annoying having to muddle and stir a sugar cube until all the minuscule sugar. Add bourbon and ice and stir to combine. To make it combine equal parts sugar white or brown and water in a saucepan over medium heat.