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#BloggerClueSociety: Irish Old Fashioned Cocktail

The Blogger CLUE Society is back!  This month our theme was Potatoes, and while the rest of the crew is knee deep in potato recipes, I decided to stretch the potato theme a bit and delve into cocktails – after all I think at least one or two spirits can be made with potatoes; and how you can you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day without a spirit to wet your whistle?

Alice from A Mama, Baby, and Shar-Pei in the Kitchen  knows how to make a cocktail.  She has a fun feature Mad Men Cocktails that I’ve been crazy about.  Alice had a great recipe for a Classic Old Fashioned Cocktail.  You can’t go wrong with Vintage Cocktails; they are classics for a reason.

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I put a slight twist on her recipe to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.  The Irish Old Fashioned is made with Redbreast Irish Whiskey  which gives a solid foundation with hints of spice, sherry, and cream.  I added ½ ounce of fresh orange and ½ ounce fresh lemon juice to the Irish Whiskey.  I find that freshly squeezed juice adds a lively tone to cocktails.  I also used a combination of Angostura Bitters and Orange Bitters and swapped the maraschino cherries for Luxardo Cherries.  The end result was smashing.

Looking for some St. Paddy’s Day inspiration?  Check out what the rest of the Blogger Clue Society made this month:

 

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Irish Old Fashioned Cocktail
 
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Recipe type: Cocktail
Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • 2 ounces Redbreast Irish Whiskey
  • ½ ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
  • ½ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
  • 2 dashes Angostura Bitters
  • 2 dashes orange bitters
  • ¼ ounce simple syrup
  • 3 Luxardo Cherries
  • 1 orange slice
  • 1 lemon slice
  • Ice
Instructions
  1. Place all ingredients except cherries in a cocktail shaker. Add ice. Shake vigorously. Place Luxardo Cherries into the bottom of an old-fashioned glass. Pour contents of cocktail shaker into old-fashioned glass and garnish with a slice of orange and lemon slice.

 

 

WRITTEN BY

Christy Majors

Food enthusiast, wine aficionado, BBC Food fanatic, and cookbook bibliomaniac, who suffers from an incurable case of culinary wanderlust. Creator of Culinary Diva (TM) where experiences in food, travel and wine are broken down for the home cook and traveler. Banker by day.
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25 Comments

  1. Oh, this was my mom’s cocktail of choice!!! I always liked eating her fruit when I was a girl!!! Love this for St. Patty’s Day!

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  3. I love the old fashioned cocktail – it reminds me of my aunt and uncle who had one every day at 5:00PM for my entire life…….they were really mellow people so maybe I should try it! 🙂

  4. My SIL revived the Old Fashion while visiting at our house. I must admit that I do not drink anything brown….but, I made an exception…. I think I would really like this recipe!

  5. My dad used to make something like this when I was little and I remember him talking about the bitters and I could never figure out what a bitter was!! I’d say you nailed the recipe for March/Irish!

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