Old+Fashioned+Gin+Cocktail

Ingredients

 * 1 sugar cube
 * 2 dashes Angostura bitters
 * 1 teaspoon water
 * 2 ounces gin


 * Glass Type:** old-fashioned glass

Instructions
Place the sugar in an Old-Fashioned glass or other smallish heavy-bottomed tumbler. Add 2 dashes bitters -- Angostura or Peychaud's -- and a teaspoon of water and muddle the sugar until it dissolves. Add 2 ounces gin -- Genever or London Dry -- stir well, and add 2 large ice cubes. Let sit for a couple of minutes and have at it. That's the old-fashioned way of making it. To make a **Fancy Gin Cocktail**, squeeze a strip of thin-cut lemon peel over the glass and rub it around the rim (not very fancy, we'll admit, but folks were simpler then).

For a so-called **Improved Gin Cocktail**, which we highly recommend, combine in your cocktail shaker 2 ounces gin, preferably Genever, 1/2 to 1 teaspoon simple syrup (made by dissolving 2 parts sugar in 1 part water over a low flame and letting it cool), 1 teaspoon Grand Marnier, Cointreau, or Maraschino liqueur, 2 dashes bitters, and a whole lot of cracked ice. Stir vigorously, strain into a chilled cocktail glass, and do the thing with the lemon peel. Make sure to cut up your ATM cards before you have your second.

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