Old Fashion
The recipe for the old fashioned dates to the early 1800s, though not by that name. The term "old-fashioned cocktails" dates to 1880, and recipes by that name appear in cocktail books of the late 1880s and 1890s, with Proulx (1888) of Chicago the earliest known.
An old fashioned was one of the simpler and earlier versions of cocktails, before the development of advanced bartending techniques and recipes in the later part of the 19th century. The first documented definition of the word "cocktail" was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the 6 May 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbian Repository in Hudson, New York. In the 13 May 1806, issue, the paper's editor wrote that it was a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar; it was also referred to at the time as a bittered sling.
Ingredients
Angostura bitters
Soda Water
1 sugar cube
2 oz Bourbon
Orange Peel
Lemon Peel
Steps
Add sugar cube to a glass. Dash bitters directly on top of sugar cube until covered about 3-5 dash’s.
Add 2 barspoons of soda water.
Muddle until sugar is fine and incorporated with bitters.
Add 2 oz of bourbon.
Add Good Ice cube and stir for ~15 seconds.
Garnish with peel from orange and peel from lemon.
