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Fancy Free
A stirred bourbon cocktail with maraschino liqueur and two kinds of bitters.
Go to the recipe ↓The Fancy Free stirs bourbon with maraschino, Angostura bitters and orange bitters. Both versions here use 2 ounces of bourbon to 1/2 ounce of maraschino, a 4:1 split, so the choice is in the serve and the bitters. PUNCH uses one dash of each bitters, strains the drink over a big cube in a double rocks glass and adds an orange twist. The 2007 Cocktail Virgin entry lets each bitters run from one to two dashes, names no glass and garnishes with a cherry.
PUNCH: on a big cube
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
See the proportions
Share of the measured liquid, before ice. Unmeasured additions and non-volume ingredients are excluded.
Method as published
- Chill a double rocks glass.
- Pour the bourbon, maraschino liqueur, Angostura bitters and orange bitters into a mixing glass.
- Add ice and stir until the drink is chilled.
- Strain over one large ice cube in the chilled glass.
Garnish Orange twist
- The source suggests Elijah Craig Small Batch or Old Forester for the bourbon and Caffo for the maraschino. These are preferences, not requirements.
- Contains bourbon and maraschino liqueur; the bitters may also contain alcohol.
Recipe source: PUNCH ↗
Cocktail Virgin (2007): cherry garnish
Contains alcohol
Ingredients
Original recipe quantities.
Method as published
- Stir the bourbon, maraschino and both bitters with ice.
- Strain the drink.
Garnish Cherry
- Each bitters is a range of 1 to 2 dashes; choose an amount before scaling.
- The source does not name a glass or say whether to serve the drink over ice. It credits Chuck Taggart.
- Contains bourbon and maraschino; the bitters may also contain alcohol.
Recipe source: cocktailvirgin.blogspot.com ↗