New Fashioned Drink Food

NEW FANGLED FASHIONED

Steps:

• Add the pepper to a small saucepan with the maraschino cherry juice. Bring to a boil and reduce for 2 minutes. Remove from the heat, strain and cool.
• In a shaker add the orange supremes and a little of the reserved orange juice (reserving 4 supremes for garnish), and muddle together. Add 1/4 cup of the black pepper cherry syrup, the bourbon and a scoop of ice. Shake and pour into 4 rocks glasses with a big ice cube in each. Garnish each drink with an orange supreme and a maraschino cherry.

NEW FASHIONED

Steps:

• Stir ingredients in a shaker with ice.
• Strain into rocks glass.
• Serve chilled neat and garnished with orange peel.

NEW OLD FASHIONED COCKTAILS

Steps:

• Add half the whiskey and 2 ice cubes to a rocks glass. Stir. Add the sugar syrup, Angostura bitters and 2 more ice cubes. Stir. Add the rest of the whiskey and 2 more ice cubes. Stir.
• Add 2 more ice cubes, then pinch the citrus zest so the aromatic oils spray over the drink, then drop it into the glass. 3 TWISTSRum old fashionedThe silky-sweet rums of Latin America are particularly good for this - try the amber-coloured Ron Zacapa from Venezuela. Instead of Angostura bitters, try using Angostura orange bitters, and garnish with an orange twist. Tequila old fashionedAnejo tequila has lots of vanilla and caramel notes that work very nicely in an old fashioned. For the sweetener, use agave syrup instead of sugar syrup, although agave syrup tends to be sweeter, so you may need slightly less. Garnish with a lemon twist. Smoky old fashionedTo add a hint of smoke, infuse your sugar syrup. Simply make a 2:1 sugar syrup and while it's still warm, put a Lapsang Souchong teabag in the syrup and leave to infuse for half-an-hour. Then make your old fashioned as normal.