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Old Fashioned Cocktail
1 lump sugar
2 dashes Peychaud or Angostura bitters
1 jigger rye whiskey
1 piece lemon peel
1 chunk pineapple
1 slice orange peel
2 maraschino cherries
Into a heavy-bottomed barglass drop a lump of sugar, dash on
the bitters, and crush with a spoon. Pour in the jigger of rye
whiskey and stir with several lumps of ice. No shaking allowed!
Let the mixture remain in the glass in which it is prepared. Gar
nish with a half-ring of orange peel, add the chunk of pineapple,
and the cherries with a little of the maraschino juice. Twist the
slice of lemon peel over all and serve in the mixing glass with the
barspoon.
Old Fashioned? Yea, verily, but as appealing to smart
tastes now as on that certain Derby Day a half century
ago when the originator, whoever he may have been,
first stirred it into being at the Pendennis Club, in Louis
ville, Kentucky.
The Old Fashioned has been a New Orleans institu
tion for many years and when other whiskey mixtures,
garnished with fancy names, have passed on and been
forgotten, the Old Fashioned will continue to tickle ex
perienced palates. Don't let anyone tell you that gin,
rum, or brandy can take the place of whiskey in an Old
Fashioned. Turn a deaf ear to such heresy. A real Old
Fashioned demands rye whiskey. Remember, Bourbon
won't do.
In the old days before the Great Mistake the Old
Fashioned contained less fruit than it does today. How-
beit, the expert barkeep of pre-prohibition days never
neglected to twist a slice of lemon peel over the glass be
fore serving.
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