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The Ultimate Old Fashioned

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Course: Cocktails, Montana Kitchen
Cuisine: American
Keyword: drinks
Total Time: 5 minutes
Author: Meggen

Ingredients

For the cocktail

  • 2-3 Demera sugar cubes
  • Peychaud’s or Scrappy’s Bitters
  • Good Bourbon- We like Old Forester- 1910
  • Several Orange peels
  • Water
  • Flathead Valley Rainer cherries

For the Orange infused ice cubes

  • distilled water
  • orange peel slivers

Instructions

  • Add a few dashes of bitters to the sugar cubes
  • Muddle 2 sugar cubes with 1 ounce of water. Twist orange peel to release the oils and add to the muddled sugar cubes. Stir in 2 ounces of bourbon. Add in two dashes of bitters. Mix well. Remove the muddled peel.
  • In an double old fashioned glass, add one large ice ball or two to three ice cubes, pour over muddled bourbon mixture. Garnish with a fresh orange peel and Rainer cherry.
  • To make ice: boil water to remove impurities or use distilled water. Pour into an ice tray with thin slivers of orange peel. Place in ice box until frozen through.