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Recipe No. 02 · Cocktails

Cocktails

Brown Butter Bourbon Old Fashioned

Brown butter in a cocktail sounds fussy. It is not. It takes ten minutes and makes people feel immediately cared for.

Serves 1 Easy
Brown butter bourbon old fashioned on a worn wood bar, large clear ice catching candlelight, orange peel curled just so

Ingredients

  • 2 oz bourbon
  • 1/2 oz brown butter fat-washed bourbon (see note)
  • 1/4 oz maple syrup
  • 2 dashes aromatic bitters
  • 1 dash orange bitters
  • Large clear ice cube
  • Orange peel and Luxardo cherry, for garnish

Method

  1. For brown butter bourbon: melt 2 tbsp butter in a small pan until nutty and golden. Cool slightly, then combine with 4 oz bourbon in a jar. Refrigerate 4 hours, freeze 1 hour, skim solidified fat. Strain.
  2. Add standard bourbon, fat-washed bourbon, maple syrup, and both bitters to a mixing glass with ice.
  3. Stir steadily for 30 seconds until well chilled and slightly diluted.
  4. Strain into a rocks glass over one large ice cube.
  5. Express orange peel over the drink, drop it in, and add a cherry if you like a little sweetness.
“Batch the fat-washed bourbon on a quiet afternoon. It keeps for two weeks and makes you look like you planned this all along, which, honestly, you did.” Heather Holiday