Fancy Whiskey Cocktail

Name: Fancy Whiskey Cocktail
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 2 ounces rye whiskey; 2 dashes Angostura Bitters; 4 dashes simple syrup

The Old Fashioned is an old and distinguished cocktail, as well as one of my personal favorites. Many may point to its origins as being at the Pendennis Club in Louisville Kentucky around 1890, but its true roots go much deeper. Today we call it the “Old Fashioned” because it is a cocktail that is made in the true "old fashioned" way. You might even say it is the original cocktail, although in those days it would simply have been known as a “whiskey cocktail”, which with a little fancy embellishments becomes the “Fancy Whiskey Cocktail”.

Fancy Whiskey Cocktail

2 ounces rye whiskey
2 dashes Angostura Bitters
4 dashes simple syrup

Garnish: lemon twist

Stir with ice, strain into a cocktail glass rimmed with lemon

If you use Boubon whiskey in this drink only use a dash or two of simple syrup.