Dress up Your Bourbon (or Rye) in the Old-Fashioned

Gather the ingredients. The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck Place a sugar cube or sugar in an old-fashioned glass and saturate it with bitters. Muddle or stir to mix. The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck Add the whiskey, fill the glass with ice, and stir well. The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck Express the orange peel over the drink before dropping it into the glass: Twist up the peel and give it a good squeeze (directed toward the glass, not your eyes) and bits of citrus oil will spray into the drink. Add a cherry if you like. The Spruce / Julia Hartbeck