Old Fashioned Cocktail (muddled fruit version)
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Ingredients
How to make
Serve in a old-fashioned glass
- 1 MUDDLE orange and cherries in base of shaker
- 2 Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass.
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History
This drink is often mixed in the serving glass. Shaking better incorporates muddled flavours; fine straining removes peel and skin.
When preparing an Old Fashioned, orange and lemon segments, and occasionally a maraschino cherry, may be muddled. This practice likely originated during Prohibition as a method to mask inferior spirits and is seldom seen outside North America. In the Foreword to his 1945 Cocktail Guide and Ladies' Companion, Lucus Beebe recounts the reaction of a bartender at Chicago's Drake Hotel when given the order "an Old Fashioned without fruit except for lemon." "Yong impudent sir", he screamed, "my hair is hoary–with eld," he added as an afterthought. "Man and boy I've built Old Fashioned cocktails these sixty years. Yes, sir, since the first Armour was pushing a wheelbarrow in a slaughterhouse, and I have never yet had the perverted nastiness of mind to put fruit in an Old Fashioned." Old-Fashioned cocktail history