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Spiced Old-Fashioned

A bourbon old-fashioned sweetened with a homemade Demerara syrup spiced with cinnamon, cardamom and Marathi moggu, plus peach and wormwood bitters.

Total 10 minutes
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Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup Demerara sugar
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
  • 5 green cardamom pods
  • 5 Marathi moggu buds, partially crushed
  • 2 oz Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon
  • 5 dashes peach bitters
  • 2 dashes wormwood bitters
  • 1/4 oz special syrup, heavy pour
  • orange and lemon twists
  • ice, for the mixing glass and the serving glass

Steps

1Make the special syrup

  1. Add 1/4 cup Demerara sugar to a pot over low heat.
  2. Add 1/4 cup water.
  3. Cook until the sugar dissolves.
  4. Add 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half.
  5. Add 5 green cardamom pods.
  6. Add 5 Marathi moggu buds, partially crushed.
  7. Simmer 5 minutes.
  8. Remove from heat.
  9. Strain out the spices.

2Make the drink

  1. Fill a mixing glass halfway with ice.
  2. Add 2 oz Old Grand-Dad Bonded Bourbon.
  3. Add 5 dashes peach bitters.
  4. Add 2 dashes wormwood bitters.
  5. Add a heavy 1/4 oz special syrup.
  6. Stir until chilled, about 15 seconds.
  7. Strain into an Old-Fashioned glass over 1 large ice cube.
  8. Express the orange and lemon twists over the surface of the drink.
  9. Drop the twists in the glass.