Whiskey Sour
The cocktail that proves you don't need fancy ingredients. Bourbon, fresh lemon, and sugar shaken into a perfectly balanced sour. Add egg white foam for extra elegance.
- 2 ozbourbon
- ¾ ozfresh lemon juice(freshly squeezed)
- ¾ ozsimple syrup(1:1)
- cherry and orange slicegarnish
- 1Garnish with a cherry and orange slice.
- 2classic-whiskey-night
- 3golden-age-cocktails
- 4home-bar-basics
- 5no
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The Whiskey Sour dates back to the 1870s and appears in Jerry Thomas's bartending guides. It exemplifies the classic sour formula of spirit and citrus and sweetener.
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