In the pantry · 38 uses
angostura
Bitters are seasoning for a drink — the salt of the bar. A couple of dashes bind the sweet and the sour into something that reads as one thing instead of two.
31
dishes and drinks that need it
7
more where it is worth adding
100%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Sugar turns up alongside it in about 35% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 31
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
- Soda and bitters2m
- Champagne cocktail3m
- Manhattan3m
- Rob Roy3m
- Rye Manhattan3m
- Bitter orange tonic4m
- Bourbon coffee4m
- Brandy Old Fashioned4m
- Irish Old Fashioned4m
- Maple Old Fashioned4m
- Martinez4m
- Mezcal Old Fashioned4m
- Oaxaca Old Fashioned4m
- Old Fashioned4m
- Rum Old Fashioned4m
- Rye Old Fashioned4m
- Scotch Old Fashioned4m
- Tequila Old Fashioned4m
- Vieux Carré4m
- Apple cider Old Fashioned5m
- Black Manhattan5m
- Coffee Old Fashioned5m
- Corn 'n' oil5m
- Simple rum punch5m
- Smoked maple Old Fashioned5m
- Vanilla Old Fashioned5m
- Brandy Crusta6m
- Planter's punch6m
- Queen's Park swizzle6m
- Rum swizzle6m
- Brown butter Old Fashioned8m
Worth adding · 7
These work without it. They work better with it.