New Fashioned Recipes

Steps:

• Muddle the sugar cube and bitters with one bar spoon of water at the bottom of a chilled rocks glass. (If using simple syrup, combine bitters and one bar spoon of syrup.) Add rye or bourbon. Stir.
• Add one large ice cube, or three or four smaller cubes. Stir until chilled and properly diluted, about 30 seconds. Slip orange twist on the side of the cube.

Steps:

• Stir ingredients in a shaker with ice.
• Strain into rocks glass.
• Serve chilled neat and garnished with orange peel.

Steps:

• Add half the whiskey and 2 ice cubes to a rocks glass. Stir. Add the sugar syrup, Angostura bitters and 2 more ice cubes. Stir. Add the rest of the whiskey and 2 more ice cubes. Stir.
• Add 2 more ice cubes, then pinch the citrus zest so the aromatic oils spray over the drink, then drop it into the glass. 3 TWISTSRum old fashionedThe silky-sweet rums of Latin America are particularly good for this - try the amber-coloured Ron Zacapa from Venezuela. Instead of Angostura bitters, try using Angostura orange bitters, and garnish with an orange twist. Tequila old fashionedAnejo tequila has lots of vanilla and caramel notes that work very nicely in an old fashioned. For the sweetener, use agave syrup instead of sugar syrup, although agave syrup tends to be sweeter, so you may need slightly less. Garnish with a lemon twist. Smoky old fashionedTo add a hint of smoke, infuse your sugar syrup. Simply make a 2:1 sugar syrup and while it's still warm, put a Lapsang Souchong teabag in the syrup and leave to infuse for half-an-hour. Then make your old fashioned as normal.

Steps:

• Clean the inside of a latex balloon. Fill balloon with enough filtered water to fit in a cocktail glass; tie to close. Place balloon in freezer, suspended, so that nothing touches it and it keeps its shape. Freeze until frozen. Remove balloon from ice ball and discard; keep ice ball frozen until ready to use.
• Fill a large glass with ice cubes. Add rye, vermouth, maple syrup, and both bitters; stir to combine. Strain into a rocks glass and add ice ball; garnish with orange and lemon peels. Serve.