So I volunteer at my culinary school most Fridays as the bartender for our weekly happy hour. If you're in St. Louis or a St. Louisan, feel free head up to L'Ecole Culinare's Presentation Room between 4-8 pm on Fridays for a weekly changing menu and drink specials, great food and drink for a low cost. Shameless plug over and done with moving on, this means that Friday Posts will not only be later at night, but also on the favorite cocktail I mixed that night. And luckily we get to start off with one of my personal favorite cocktails to mix, Old Fashioned, considered by most to be the Original Cocktail. I was making them for one of the out of town Chef's who is from the Memphis branch of L'ecole, everyone else at the table was having a Boulevardier, basically a Negrino made with whisky instead of gin, (both of which will likely be in later Friday posts, both are fairly popular drinks at the Presentation Room) unfortunately or in my case fortunately the Chef didn't like the bitterness of campari and another Chef declared that he should have an Old fashioned, when the Out-of-town Chef looked confused at the Cocktail name I sprung into action with my Jiggers and a muddler.
Old Fashioned (Le'cole Style)
2 Orange slices
3 Dashes Bitters
1 1/2 tsp Granulated Sugar
1 oz House made Sweet and Sour Mix
3 oz Jack Daniels
Squeeze Orange slices into a Rock Glass, add Sugar and Bitters, muddle until sugar is dissolved into a smooth liquid.
Add Ice.
Add House made Sweet and Sour mix and Jack Daniels, use stir rod to mix until a consistent color through out.
Garnish with a Bourbon soaked Cherry and stir straw, Enjoy responsibly.
Under the Arch we enjoy as my mother endearingly puts it, "The occasional adult bevey..." make sure that you enjoy your drinks responsibly and make sure to toast the bartender.
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