Cooking Lesson #588: St. Patrick’s Day New Age Old Fashioned

…from the Perspectives’ Happy Hour Bar

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How you doin’? St. Patrick’s Day is next week (yes, already!) and we wanted to give you a jump on this one so you had time to gather the special ingredients.
 
This New Age Old Fashioned is perfectly bright green for St. Patrick’s Day. A classic Old Fashioned is great with a grilled filet steak, but my delicious St. Patrick’s Day New Age Old Fashioned is made to accompany lamb.
 
This whiskey cocktail is made with three flavors of mint—mint jelly, mint syrup (for color) and, of course, fresh mint in the glass—plus an extra sprig of mint to garnish the finished drink.
 
Ingredients 
1 Bordeaux maraschino cherry
1 mint sprig
1/4 ounce Monin brand mint syrup
1/4 orange wheel
1/2 teaspoon mint jelly
1 dash Angostura bitters
1 dash Fee Brothers mint bitters
2 ounces Dewar’s 12-year-old scotch
ice
Garnish: mint sprig
 
Directions

1. Add the cherry, mint sprig, mint syrup, orange wheel, mint jelly, Angostura bitters and mint bitters into a mixing glass with a splash of water and muddle, carefully crushing into a paste-like consistency.
2. Remove the spent fruit skins, husks and crushed leaves and stems, but keep the flavored paste in the mixing glass.
3. Add the scotch and ice and stir until well-chilled.
4. Strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice.
5. Garnish with a mint sprig.

​ChefSecret:  DRINK RESPONSIBILY!

Quip of the Day:  “Irish toast to love--I have known many, and liked not a few, but loved only one, and
 this toast is to you.”
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