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To begin, gather your ingredients together and follow the steps below: In an old fashioned glass, place a slice of orange in the bottom of the glass and muddle. The goal here is to bring out the juice in the orange so be sure to muddle well (but not so much that you break the slice up). Using a spoon, scoop out a cherry from your jar of Luxardo.

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It's generally a muddled fruit, brandy-based old fashioned with a little bit of sprite or sour soda on top. Wondering why? Robert Simmonson's book mentions that the 1893 World's Exposition in nearby Chicago showcased Korbel's brandy. All this love of brandy may stem back from that event. Maintaining that love of brandy old fashioneds is.

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Granulated sugar tears into the ingredients as you muddle. This can be overkill for soft herbs, so add it with the fruit instead, or dissolve it in a few drops of water and add it to the cocktail separately. 3. Press and twist lightly. Mint, basil, and other soft leaves release bitter flavors when crushed or torn apart.

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Instructions. 1. Muddle the cherries, lime juice, orange bitters, and honey in a cocktail shaker or glass jar until the cherries are well mashed and have released their juices. Add the bourbon and shake to combine. 2. Strain (or not, I leave my cherries in!) into a cocktail glass filled with ice. If desired top with sparking water.

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In an Old Fashioned glass, muddle the bitters, sugar cube, one cherry and one orange wheel. Step two. Remove the orange rind, add whiskey and ice to the glass, and stir. Step three.

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Put the pitted cherries into a cocktail shaker and muddle. Add the bourbon, cherry brandy, simple syrup, orange bitters and ice to the shaker and shake well until container is cold. Fill two low-ball glasses half full with ice. Pour shaken cocktail (plus the ice and muddled cherries) into your glasses. Top with club soda.

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To muddle an ingredient, place the ingredient (such as the orange slice pictured here) into a glass and, using a muddler, press down on the orange slice to squeeze the juice from the flesh and rind of the slice. When muddling an orange slice, the goal is not to crush the slice comes apart but to simply press the oils and juices from the slice.

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If using frozen cherries, let them defrost before muddling them . Sprinkle the pitted cherries with 1/2 cup of sugar. Use a fork or pestle to mash the cherries and sugar together a bit. Cover and let sit for about an hour. Mash the mixture a bit more to smooth it out a bit. Taste it and add more sugar to taste, if you like.

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Cherries are not debated. A "great" from scratch Old Fashioned has a muddled cherry or two, as well as one for a garnish. "From Scratch" expectation = Muddled fruit. I learned this way… Tumbler, 8 or 10oz. (Big glass, strong drink) Two maraschino cherries, two sugar cubes, three dashes of angostura bitters. Peeled orange slice optional.

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How to make: MUDDLE orange and cherries in base of shaker. Add other ingredients, SHAKE with ice and fine strain into ice-filled glass. 2 whole. Maraschino cherry (from jar in syrup) 1 ⁄ 2 slice. Orange (fresh) (cut into segments) 1 ⁄ 2 slice. Lemon (fresh) (cut into segments)

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Add the cherries and mint leaves to a tall glass (or mason jar) and muddle until the cherries are broken up and have released their juices. Strain the juice into another container. Pour the lime juice and bourbon on top of the cherry juice and stir until combined. Fill two glasses with ice and divide the cherry bourbon mixture into them.

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How to Make a 1960's Old Fashioned Cocktail. To prepare it my way, get yourself a nice whisky glass and add 1 sugar cube and 1 maraschino cherry to the glass. Muddle the cherry and sugar cube. Add in an orange slice, muddle the fruit part of orange slice just enough to get the juice out. Add in your large ice cube.

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Sugar is one of the three pillar ingredients, so it deserves some thought. The classic way to make an Old Fashioned starts with placing a sugar cube at the bottom of a glass, adding a few dashes of bitters and a splash of water and muddling until it's completely dissolved. This is still a great option, but many people use simple syrup for.

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Instructions. In the bottom of your cocktail shaker or mason jar, add the cherries and lemon juice. Gently muddle until the cherries are broken apart. Add the bourbon and ice. Shake for about 15-seconds. Strain into an old-fashioned glass filled with ice. Top with cherry soda or club soda.

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Step 2. Add bourbon, cherry syrup, and orange bitters. Fill with ice and shake vigorously 10 times. Strain into a Martini glass. Garnish with a cherry from the syrup and an orange twist.

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Cucumbers are about 90% water but they're not exactly soft. To make the muddling easier, dice up the cucumbers, about ¼ inch thick and place them in a glass. Then, press them until the liquid comes out. After a few presses, place the mint leaves in the glass and this is where you start the gentle press and twist motion.