Place a sugar cube into an Old-fashioned glass and saturate with bitters. Add a splash of club soda. Mash with a muddler until dissolved. Fill the glass with ice cubes and add whiskey. Garnish with two maraschino cherries, a lemon twist, and orange slice, and serve.

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The Old Fashioned is a cocktail, possibly the first drink to be called a cocktail. It is traditionally served in a short, round, 812 ounce tumbler-like glass, called an Old-Fashioned glass, named after the drink. The Old Fashioned is one of six basic drinks listed in David A. Embury's classic The Fine Art of Mixing Drinks. The first documented definition of the word "cocktail" was in response to a reader's letter asking to define the word in the May 6, 1806, issue of The Balance and Columbia Repository in Hudson, New York. In the May 13, 1806, issue, the paper's editor wrote that it was a potent concoction of spirits, bitters, water, and sugar, a kind of bittered sling. The first use of the specific name "Old Fashioned" was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemens club in Louisville, Kentucky. The recipe is said to have been invented by a bartender at that club, and popularized by a club member and bourbon distiller, Colonel James E. Pepper, who brought it to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel ...

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