Hold Your Horses: A Wintry Old Fashioned

Name: Hold Your Horses: A Wintry Old Fashioned
Yield: 10
Cuisine: American

Recipe: Chad Austin , The Mulholland , Los Angeles

Photo: Bénédicte Castillo

February 07, 2024

Hold Your Horses - The Mulholland Wintry Old Fashioned

For those occasional days when Los Angeles gets a cold spell, Chad Austin, bar director of new restaurant, The Mulholland, created this extra-cozy take on the Old Fashioned.

Ingredients

1 1/2 oz. bottled-in-bond rye whiskey
3/4 oz. brown butter apple brandy
1/4 oz. fig syrup
4 dashes Angostura bitters

Tools:mixing glass, barspoon
Glass:Old Fashioned
Garnish:cinnamon stick

Preparation

Add all the ingredients to a mixing glass with ice and stir to chill. Strain over a large ice cube and garnish.

Brown Butter Apple BrandyAdd 1/4 lb of butter to a sauce pan. Once it starts to melt, add 3 cinnamon sticks, 4 whole cloves, and 1 star of anise. Stir occasionally over medium heat until butter begins to brown. Then allow the butter mixture to cool down for 5 minutes. Pour the mixture into a sealable container with 750ml of apple brandy. Stir and set in the freezer for 1 hour. Once the butter solidifies, strain out the butter and spices. Rebottle the fat-washed brandy. Will keep in the refrigerator or freezer for 1 month.

Fig SyrupSimmer 10 dried figs over medium heat in 2 cups of water for 30 minutes. Strain out the figs and add 2 cups of demerara sugar, stirring to incorporate. Will keep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator.