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Rye Old-Fashioned Recipe
One of the most venerable of whiskey-based cocktails, the old-fashioned has a history that stretches back farther than the martini’s For decades it has suffered under the reputation of something your grandmother drank — overly sweet, fruit-laden and spritzed-up But grandma wouldn’t recognize what’s happened to it lately.
demerara sugar, rye whiskey, orange, lemon peel