Appears in 128 Collections
Appears in 128 Collections
About The Benton’s Old Fashioned Cocktail
Created by Don Lee of New York City’s PDT in 2007, this cocktail started the fat-washing cocktail trend that’s still active in bars all over the world.
This recipe originally appeared as part of “Meat-Washed Cocktails Exist and Here’s Where to Find Them.”
Ingredients in The Benton’s Old Fashioned Cocktail
1⁄4 oz Grade B maple syrup
1⁄4 oz
Grade B maple syrup
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 dashes
Garnish:
Glass:
How to make The Benton’s Old Fashioned Cocktail
Add all the ingredients into a mixing glass and stir.
Strain into a rocks glass with one large ice cube.
Express the oil of an orange peel over the cocktail and drop in the peel.
*Fat-washed Four Roses bourbon (from Jim Meehan’s “The PDT Cocktail Book”): In a cambro/container, combine 1 750 mL bottle of Four Roses bourbon and 1 1/2 oz liquified fat from Benton’s Smoky Mountain country ham. Set aside for 4 hours to infuse. Place the container in the freezer for 2 hours. Take the container out of the freezer, and strain the bourbon from the solidified fat with terry cloth or cheesecloth.
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