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Dictionary: old-fash·ioned   (ōld'făsh'ənd)
adj.
  1. Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
  2. Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.
n.
A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.


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Alcoholic drink made from whisky, sugar, bitters, and soda water.

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adjective

    Of a style or method formerly in vogue: antiquated, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, old, old-time, outdated, outmoded, out-of-date, passé, vintage. See new/old.

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adj

Definition: outmoded, obsolete
Antonyms: contemporary, current, fashionable, in vogue, modern, new, up-to-date


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Old Fashioned
IBA Official Cocktail
Old Fashioned.jpg
Type Cocktail
Primary alcohol by volume
Served On the rocks; poured over ice
Standard garnish
Standard drinkware
Old Fashioned Glass.svg
Old fashioned glass
IBA specified ingredients
Preparation Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitter, add a dash of soda water. Muddle until dissolved. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey. Garnish with orange slice, lemon twist and two maraschino cherries.
Old Fashioned recipe at International Bartenders Association

The Old Fashioned is a cocktail, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail.[1] It is traditionally served in a short, round, 8–12 ounce tumbler-like glass, called an Old-Fashioned glass, named after the drink.

The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks.

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History

The first documented definition of the word "cocktail" was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York. In the May 13, 1806, issue, the paper's editor wrote that it was a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar, a kind of bittered sling.[2][3]

The first use of the specific name "Old Fashioned" was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen’s club in Louisville, Kentucky. The recipe is said to have been invented by a bartender at that club, and popularized by a club member and bourbon distiller, Colonel James E. Pepper, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel bar in New York City.[4]

Recipe

There is great contention on the proper way to make an Old Fashioned. Here is one recipe:[citation needed]

  • 2 ounces (60 ml) bourbon
  • Splash of simple syrup or 1 cube sugar and just enough water to dissolve the sugar
  • 2 dashes bitters
  • Old Fashioned glass
  1. Place sugar (or syrup), bitters, and water in old-fashioned glass
  2. Crush sugar if needed and coat glass
  3. Add 2–3 cubes ice and whiskey
  4. Garnish with twist

An 1895 recipe specifies the following:

  1. Dissolve a small lump of sugar with a little water in a whiskey glass
  2. Add two dashes Angostura bitters
  3. Add a small piece of ice
  4. Add a piece lemon peel
  5. Add one jigger (1.5 ounces or 44 mL) whiskey

Mix with small bar spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.[5]

Modifications

In some areas, notably Wisconsin, brandy is substituted for whiskey (sometimes called a Brandy Old Fashioned). Many drinkers prefer to use rye whiskey because of its complexity.

Most modern recipes top off an Old Fashioned cocktail with soda water. Purists decry this practice, and insist that soda water is never permitted in a true Old Fashioned cocktail.

Many bartenders add fruit, typically an orange slice, and muddle it with the sugar before adding the whiskey. This practice likely began during the Prohibition as a means of covering the bitter taste. Another explanation for the practice is that citrus is often used in place of bitters in areas where citrus fruit grows (such as Florida and California). Hence, the fresh San Diego old fashioned ([1]) uses limes, lemons, oranges, and soda water rather than bitters and simple syrup. The drink may have been imported to California during WWII, when many Midwestern and Southern boys moved to San Diego for the Navy.

Purists advocate using just enough plain water (called "branch" water) to fully dissolve the sugar without diluting the whiskey, although many whiskey drinkers advocate diluting it by at least 50% to prevent the taste buds from becoming paralyzed by the high alcohol content.

Bartenders often use a dissolved sugar-water premix called simple syrup, which is faster to use and eliminates the risk of leaving undissolved sugar in the drink, which can spoil a drinker's final sip. Others use only the juice of a maraschino cherry, along with the muddled and mangled cherry left at the bottom of the glass.

One popular garnish is a maraschino cherry fastened to the back of an orange wedge using a toothpick. Others prefer to use orange zest with the maraschino cherry.

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See also

References

  1. ^ Wondrich, David (2007). From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to 'Professor' Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar. Featuring the Original Formulae for 100 Classic American Drinks and a Selection of New Drinks Contributed in His Honor by the Leading Mixologists of Our Time. Perigee. ISBN 978-0399532870. 
  2. ^ "Raising a glass to the cocktail", Newsday article by Sylvia Carter, May 17, 2006. Newsday archive; Highbeam archive. Relevant paragraph quoted at ArtHistoryInfo.com
  3. ^ "Cocktail". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2nd ed. 1989.
  4. ^ Crockett, Albert Stevens (1935). The Old Waldorf-Astoria Bar Book. 
  5. ^ Kappeler (1895). Modern American Drinks: How to Mix and Serve All Kinds of Cups and Drinks. 

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Translations: Old-fashioned
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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - gammeldags
n. - cocktail bestående af whisky, bitter, sukker og frugt

Nederlands (Dutch)
ouderwets, verouderd

Français (French)
adj. - vieux jeu, démodé
n. - (US) cocktail à base de whisky

Deutsch (German)
adj. - altmodisch
n. - Cocktail aus Whisky u. Magenbitter

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - παλιομοδίτικος, ντεμοντέ, με παλιές ιδέες
n. - (κάτι το) παλιομοδίτικο

Italiano (Italian)
antiquato, fuori moda, sorpassato

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - antiquado, obsoleto

Русский (Russian)
старомодный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - anticuado, chapado a la antigua, antiguo, pasado de moda
n. - anticuado, antiguo

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - gammaldags, gammalmodig, omodern
n. - (am)en cocktail, lågt cocktailglas

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
旧式的, 过时的, 老派的, 守旧的, 古典鸡尾酒

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 舊式的, 過時的, 老派的, 守舊的
n. - 古典雞尾酒

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 구식의
n. - 위스키칵테일의 일종

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 古風な, 旧式の, 流行遅れの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) عتيق الطراز, دقه قديمه (الاسم) مشروب كحولي مكون من عدد من المشروبات‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮שיצא מן האופנה, מיושן, שמרני‬
n. - ‮דבר שיצא מן האופנה‬


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