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Drink · 4 min · 1 rocks glass

Brandy Old Fashioned

Cognac, sugar and bitters. Wisconsin does it with soda and cherries; this is the austere version and it is better.

The sheet · 1 rocks glass · 4 min

easy

Why tonight. Cognac, sugar and bitters. Wisconsin does it with soda and cherries; this is the austere version and it is better.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • cognac
  • sugar
  • angostura

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: orange.

Method

  1. Sugar, Angostura and a splash of water muddled to a paste, then 2 oz cognac and ice, stirred.
  2. Brandy carries more of its own sugar than whiskey, so use half as much: a bar spoon rather than a cube.
  3. In Wisconsin this is made with muddled fruit and topped with soda, which is an entirely different and completely legitimate drink. This is the other one.
  4. Orange peel, expressed and dropped in.

An educational pour, not a reprint of a licensed spec. No allergen or alcohol-safety claim.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

cognac
Grape spirit with fruit and oak, which makes it rounder and less spiky than whiskey in the same drink.
sugar
Not just sweetness — it balances acid and bitterness, which is why a sour drink and a tomato sauce both want a little.
angostura
Bitters are seasoning for a drink — the salt of the bar.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

If you bought for this, you can already make these

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