Clabber Girl Old Fashioned Biscuit Recipe

You cannot get more than classic than a classic Old Fashioned. This humble concoction of iv ingredients—whiskey, saccharide, bitters, and h2o—is quite literally the cocktail that started it all. It was that particular (and rather unremarkable) recipe that appeared aslope the first-ever printed use of the word "cocktail" way back in 1806. And 80 years later, the name "Sometime Fashioned" started getting tossed effectually in bars to describe said cocktail recipe. Yep, even the old-timers of the 1880s considered it to be an one-time-school drink. Since those sepia-toned days, the Onetime Fashioned has enjoyed illustrious comebacks as new generations of boozers have fallen for its simple charm. Our judge is human beings will be drinking Old Fashioneds until cease times, because the damned drink will never not be cool.

All of which is to say, the Old Fashioned is a cocktail that'due south been effectually for a while, and for good reason. The sweet makes it smoother than a lot of other whiskey-based drinks, though it remains a strong-jawed, spirit-frontward option. Fortunately, with few ingredients, information technology's as well an easy cocktail to master. We prefer ours with rye over bourbon.

A Little Background

At that place are 2 cultural touchpoints that prove where nosotros stand with Erstwhile Fashioneds these days. The commencement is Mad Men. Don Draper, '60s era marketing bad guy with killer way and ruthless charm, sipped Old Fashioneds fabricated with rye, club soda, and ruddy (nosotros'll let it). He embodied the classic aureola of Quondam Fashioned drinkers: stylish, successful, male. Nosotros loved him, and the testify, for it. Ryan Gosling's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love fit that bill, too, with a 21st-Century twist. He made his Former Fashioned the traditional way, at his home bar tardily at night, so did the Dirty Dancing lift with a love interest—a devastating combo.

And maybe that's why men, specially younger men, have always flocked to the cocktail: It'due south alcoholic comfort food that never lost its absurd. But seeing the Old Fashioned as merely a traditionally men's potable is a stiff mode to look at it.

"We get a lot more than women ordering traditional Old Fashioneds, and then I definitely meet a lot more than diversity," says Annie Beebe-Tron, bar manager at the Ladies' Room in Chicago. "You don't want to presume the Sometime Fashioned is his and the shaken cocktail is hers, which it ofttimes isn't."

Cocktail culture evolves, and archetype whiskey drinks similar the Old Fashioned don't exude exclusionary male-ness the fashion they used to. Thank goodness.

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The Old Fashioned is one of six root cocktails upon which all mixology is congenital, according to the Cocktail Codex, a book from the legendary Death & Co bar team. That doesn't mean you can't get funky with information technology. "The beauty of the Old-Fashioned is that about any spirit tin can be used as the core as long as the other ingredients support and accent that spirit," the team says. Bandy your bourbon or rye for rum or mezcal—or both, like this recipe calls for. Gin is some other choice. For those less inclined to live on the edge, an Irish whiskey Former Fashioned could do the pull a fast one on.