Homemade Old Fashioned Mix

This old fashioned mix is way less syrupy than the other mix I made. This is light and citrusy. The recipe calls for 2:1 ratio of booze to mix. This is a quite strong drink so we add some white soda. With the sprite it made a pretty tasty drink! 

• 3 cups granulated white sugar 
• 2 cups water 
• 1 cup freshly squeezed clementine juice 5 clementine oranges 
• 5 maraschino cherries
• 1 cinnamon stick 
• ½ tablespoon aromatic bitters 
• ½ tablespoon orange bitters 

Instructions

• In a sauce pan, combine 3 cups sugar, 2 cups water and 1 cup freshly squeezed clementine juice (I used 5 clementines and a citrus juice hand press to juice them. 

  Next, add 5 maraschino cherries cut into halves and stems removed. Add one cinnamon stick. Let the mixture simmer on medium heat until the sugar has completely dissolved into the water. 
• Next, remove the mixture from the heat and let it sit to cool and for the flavors to steep for one hour.
• After the ingredients have steeped for one hour, add aromatic and orange bitters. I used about 50 drops of each bottle or you can measure out 1/2 tablespoon of each bitter type.
• Use a fine mesh strainer and a funnel to decant your syrup into a glass bottle. I used this bottle set for mine. As a finishing touch, you can use rubber stamps to create a label like I did.

  This is especially useful if you are getting ready for a party where guests will serve themselves or if you are making more than one type of syrup.

Notes

• If you don't have clementines, you can uses oranges as a substitution. 
• If you prefer to add the cocktail bitters to each drink individually, omit them from this mix recipe.