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Ingredients to old fashioned drink9/14/2023 ![]() ![]() “OLD-FASHIONED OR NEWFANGLED, THE OLD-FASHIONED IS BACK.” THE NEW YORK TIMES, 2012. It has no absinthe, no chartreuse and no other flavoring extract injected into it.” Richardson then defined what the standard-bearers were after: a drink “nearly everywhere recognized as being made with a little sugar, a little bitters, a lump of ice, a piece of twisted lemon peel and a good deal of whiskey. “A bartender in one of the most widely known New York establishments for the dispensation of drinks was telling me the other day that there had set in an unmistakable stampede in favor of old-fashioned cocktails.” Mr. An 1886 excerpt from the Comment and Dramatic Times is cited as the first time the term "old-fashioned" is used to refer to a cocktail similar to what we know now: “The modern cocktail has come to be so complex a beverage that people are beginning to desert it,” said the editor, Leander Richardson. Drinkers wanted to quaff creations that their parents and grandparents drank (just as fashion trends are cyclical, so drink trends) and were yearning for cocktails made with more "traditional" methods. The Old Fashioned itself owes a debt of gratitude to a throwback movement in the mid-1880s that saw barkeeps being asked to serve up "old-fashioned" drinks by discerning patrons. ![]() Still, due to various geopolitical and environmental events, the supply of these French mainland and colonies ebbed and flowed, leading Americans to continue to dip into their own supply more and more. However, Americans also had quite a taste for French brandy, like Cognac. Rye whiskey was the most common in the 19th century and most likely used in the Whiskey Cocktails and Old Fashioned. Essentially, the Old Fashioned truly is the Whiskey Cocktail. However, the company eventually folded during Prohibition. Bogart's (or Boker's) was a brand of bitters used in most of Thomas's cocktails, common in the mid-19th century. Gum syrup (or gomme syrup) is a rich simple syrup (2 parts sugar to 1 part water, with gum arabic used as a thickener). Though some of the ingredients in Thomas' version seem odd to modern readers, the ingredients and technique are almost exactly what we now consider a proper Old Fashioned. ![]()
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