THE CLASSIC BOURBON COCKTAILS
OLD FASHIONED
Ingredients:
Double shot (50ml) bourbon
Brown sugar cube
Angostura bitters
Slice of orange plus orange zest
Don Draper’s drink of choice justifies its name, since it was supposedly the first drink to be referred to as a cocktail – some time back around the 1880s. The key is to make it slow. “Place the orange peel, brown sugar and bitters in the glass, and stir them to release the flavour,” says Blues Kitchen’s Rhiannon Graham. “Then add a block of ice and a bit of bourbon every minute – the perfect Old Fashioned takes seven minutes to make, infusing the bourbon with the bitters and orange over time and tasting buttery and smooth when you drink it.”
