“Real” Old-Fashioned
Ingredients
- Orange peel
- 2-3 dashes Angostura bitters
- 1 teaspoon (or less) simple syrup
- 1½ ounces decent (not top shelf) rye whiskey
- Ice
- 2 ounces club soda
Instructions
- In a medium rocks glass (9-ounce capacity), add a twist of orange peel, bitters and simple syrup (enough to just cover the orange peel). With a muddler, gently press down on the rind. The goal is to express the oil, not mash the ingredients together. Add rye. Add ice. Top with club soda.
