Old fashioned (cocktail)
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The old fashioned is a cocktail made by muddling sugar with bitters and water, adding whiskey or sometimes brandy, and garnishing with an orange slice or zest and a cocktail cherry. It is traditionall
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Smoked Old Fashioned, Restaurant R'Evolution, the French Quarter, New Orleans, Louisiana
Gin and tonic with lemon
Angostura bitters
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Angostura bitters is a concentrated bitters based on gentian, herbs, and spices, produced by the House of Angostura in Trinidad and Tobago. It is typically used for flavouring beverages or, less often
Old fashioned (cocktail)
…following (with a jigger being 2 US fluid ounces or 59 millilitres): Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey-glass; add two dashes Angostura bitters, a small piece ice, a piece lemon-peel, one jigger whiskey. Mix with small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in the glass. By the 1860s, as illustrated…
A bottle of Angostura aromatic bitters with its distinctive oversized label
Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria is shown on the label, since Angostura won a medal at the 1873 World Fair in Vienna.