Old Fashioned Cocktail (W/ Blood Orange Syrup)

• Old Fashioned Cocktail
• 2 ounces Bourbon (Rye is also great)
• 5 dashes Angostura bitters
• 3/4 teaspoon Blood Orange simple syrup
• Ice
• Blood Orange Simple Syrup
• 1 1/2 cups Sugar
• 3/4 cup Water
• 1 Blood orange (or any citrus!)

1. Add simple syrup and bitters to an old fashioned glass and twirl until bitters and syrup are completely mixed.
2. Fill glass with ice 3/4 of the way up and fill bourbon to just below that level (comes out to 2-2.5 ounces.)
3. Stir (do not shake!) Taste and then taste again 5 min later and the melt from the ice will create a dangerously drinkable bourbon cocktail.
4. Cut blood orange into very thin vertical slices (like medallions or rounds, not wedges) and set aside.
5. Mix sugar and water in a small sauce pan and heat over medium to medium to low heat until sugar is dissolved. Once dissolved add blood orange slices and cook 15-20 min until orange slices look limp.
6. Immediately jar and cool. Best to make ahead and have batch ready for cocktail hour. (Note: any 2:1 sugar syrup will work for the old fashioned. 1:1 doesn't pack enough punch while 2:1 takes off the bite of the bourbon with out making the cocktail too sweet.)

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Taken from food52.com/recipes/26200-old-fashioned-cocktail-w-blood-orange-syrup (may not work)