- Of a style or method formerly in vogue; outdated.
- Attached to or favoring methods, ideas, or customs of an earlier time: old-fashioned parents.
A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.
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A cocktail made of whiskey, bitters, sugar, and fruit.
Alcoholic drink made from whisky, sugar, bitters, and soda water.
adjective
Definition: outmoded, obsolete
Antonyms: contemporary, current, fashionable, in vogue, modern, new, up-to-date
| This drink is designated as an IBA Official Cocktail |
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| Old Fashioned | |
| Type: | Cocktail |
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| Served: | "On the rocks"; poured over ice |
| Standard garnish: |
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| Standard drinkware: | Old fashioned glass |
| IBA specified ingredients†: |
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| Preparation: | Place sugar cube in old fashioned glass and saturate with bitter, add a dash of soda water. Muddle until dissolve. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whisky. 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. 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.
The first known 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.[1]
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. The Pepper family distillery is now known as Labrot & Graham.
There is great contention on the proper way to make an Old Fashioned. Here is one recipe:
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 respected sources (e.g. Maker's Mark) list an Old Fashioned as containing soda water, forgoing the bitters altogether. In some areas, notably Wisconsin, brandy is substituted for whiskey.
Many bartenders add fruit, typically an orange slice, and muddle it with the sugar before adding the whiskey. This practice likely began during Prohibition as a means of covering the taste of poor alcohol.
An 1895 recipe specifies the following: Dissolve a small lump (about 3 grams) 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 (44 ml) whiskey. Mix with small bar-spoon and serve, leaving spoon in glass.
Purists advocate using just enough plain water (called "branch" water) to fully dissolve the sugar without diluting the whiskey. A 50/50 blend of sugar and water works fine. Bartenders often use a dissolved sugar water pre-mix called simple syrup, which is faster to use and eliminates the risk of leaving undissolved sugar in the drink which can spoil your final sip. Using blended whiskies is not recommended, since the Old Fashioned was designed as a showcase for the fine qualities of your best Bourbon, rye, or Tennessee sipping whiskey. Many drinkers prefer to use rye whiskey because of its complexity. 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, in order to better bring out the orange oil component of this superb drink.
Alcoholic strength about 35 percent by volume.
See also List of cocktails.
In the movie It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Tyler Fitzgerald (Jim Backus) has three Old Fashioneds while flying his airplane. On his way to make his fourth, he leaves Benjy (Buddy Hackett) in charge of flying the airplane. Benjy asks "What if something happens?" to which Mr. Fitzgerald asks "What could happen to a Old Fashioned?"
An Old-Fashioned is also the drink of choice of the urbane, sophisticated Donald Draper, the star of AMC's series,
"Mad Men."
During the Sanford & Son episode, "Happy Birthday Pop", Fred is trying to decide
want drink to order. The bartender returns and asks "How would you like a nice Old Fashioned?". Fred replies "How would you like
one across your lips?", he then mumbles "Don't be callin me 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
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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