Not Your Father’s Old Fashioned
Servings: 4 Cocktails
Calories: 241kcal
Ingredients
Thyme simple syrup: Makes enough for 4 cocktails
- ¼ cup water
- ¼ cup sugar
- 5 sprigs of fresh thyme
Not Your Father's Old Fashioned: Makes enough for 4 cocktails
- 1 orange blood oranges work great for this recipe!
- 1 grapefruit
- 4 ounces bourbon I used Wild Turkey
- 6 dash Angostura Bitters
- 4 ounces thyme simple syrup use recipe from above
- orange twist for garnish
- 1 sprig of fresh thyme for garnish
- 4 cups crushed ice or 4 ice balls
Instructions
Making thyme simple syrup:
- Combine water and sugar in a small saucepan and bring to a boil.
- Once boiling, remove from heat.
- Add fresh thyme sprigs to sugar water and let steep for 10-15 minutes.
Making Not Your Father's Old Fashioned:
- Section half of the orange and grapefruit into pieces. Be sure to remove fruit pulp from the pith (the white skin that separates the fruit sections).
- Once you have the fruit sectioned, cut into bite size pieces. ½ to 1 inch in size.
- Fill a shaker with crushed ice, orange and grapefruit pieces, bourbon, bitters and thyme syrup. Shake well!
- Fill glass with crushed ice or place ice ball into glass.
- Strain drink mixture over ice.
- Garnish with orange twist and 1 sprig of fresh thyme.
Nutrition
Serving: 1g | Calories: 241kcal | Carbohydrates: 45g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 30mg | Potassium: 164mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 41g | Vitamin A: 869IU | Vitamin C: 40mg | Calcium: 43mg | Iron: 1mg
