Clandestino Old Fashioned Recipe
You can use the vanilla and cinnamon syrups beyond this cocktail. The cinnamon syrup plays well with rum, and we're partial to the vanilla syrup mixed with whiskey and Coca-Cola.
Recipe adapted from Jason Litrell, Death & Co., New York City
Clandestino Old Fashioned
Make this Clandestino Old Fashioned cocktail from Jason Litrell at Death & Co. in New York City.
Prep Time
0
minutes
Cook Time
30
minutes
Servings
1
cocktail
Total time: 30 minutes
Ingredients
- Vanilla syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean, split and scraped
- Cinnamon syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 7 cinnamon sticks
- Cocktail
- Ice
- 1 dash Fee Brothers whiskey barrel-aged bitters
- 1 teaspoon Campari
- 1/6 ounce vanilla syrup
- 1/6 ounce cinnamon syrup
- ½ ounce Rittenhouse 100-proof rye
- 1½ ounces Old Weller Antique 107 bourbon
- 1 large ice cube
- Orange peel
Directions
- Make the vanilla syrup: In a medium saucepan set over medium-high heat, combine the sugar and 1 cup water and cook until the sugar dissolves. Transfer to a lidded container and add the vanilla pod and seeds. Cover and let sit overnight. Discard the vanilla pod.
- Make the cinnamon syrup: In a medium saucepan set over medium-high heat, combine the sugar and 1 cup water and cook until the sugar dissolves. Transfer to a lidded contained and add the cinnamon bark. Cover and let sit overnight. Discard the cinnamon.
- Make the cocktail: Fill a mixing glass with ice. Add the bitters, Campari, vanilla syrup, cinnamon syrup, rye and bourbon and stir until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass filled with the large ice cube and garnish with the orange peel.