# Fancy Free

Maraschino replaces sugar entirely in this modern rocks-glass reading of an early whiskey cocktail, with two bitters keeping bourbon's sweetness taut.

Strength: 38% ABV before dilution

## Ingredients

- 60 ml [Bourbon](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/bourbon.md)
- 15 ml [Luxardo Maraschino](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/luxardo-maraschino.md)
- 1 dash [Angostura bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/angostura-bitters.md)
- 1 dash [Orange bitters](https://stirred.fyi/ingredients/orange-bitters.md)

## Glassware

Rocks glass

## Garnish

- Orange twist — Express the peel oils over the drink and retain the twist.

## Method

1. Stir all ingredients with cubed ice until thoroughly chilled and diluted.
2. Strain into a chilled rocks glass over one large clear cube.

## Related drinks

- [Brandy Scaffa](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/brandy-scaffa.md): Equal old brandy and maraschino with aromatic bitters preserve Jerry Thomas’s concentrated, undiluted room-temperature scaffa.
- [Red Hook](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/red-hook.md): A dry, bittersweet Brooklyn variation blending rye with Punt e Mes and nutty maraschino.
- [Mint Julep](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/mint-julep.md): A cold, fragrant bourbon drink in which mint and a little sugar open the whiskey without obscuring it.
- [Whiskey Smash](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/whiskey-smash.md): Muddled lemon flesh and peel make this bourbon-and-mint cooler more pulpy and aromatic than either a Whiskey Sour or a Mint Julep.
- [Improved Whiskey Cocktail](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/improved-whiskey-cocktail.md): Rye is improved in the nineteenth-century sense with tiny measures of maraschino, sugar, absinthe, and bitters, preserving the whiskey's shape while connecting the Old Fashioned to the Sazerac.
- [Final Ward](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/final-ward.md): An equal-parts rye variation on the Last Word, with Green Chartreuse, maraschino, and lemon.
- [Aviation](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/aviation.md): A floral gin sour with maraschino, lemon, and the violet hue of crème de violette.
- [Casino](https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/casino.md): An Old Tom gin sour sharpened with maraschino, lemon, and orange bitters.

## References

- Canonical page: https://stirred.fyi/cocktails/fancy-free
- Photograph: https://stirred.fyi/assets/cocktails/fancy-free-9345b095.webp
- Recipe source: https://www.wweek.com/drink/2023/03/29/a-new-book-by-two-local-mixologists-tells-you-how-to-stock-your-bar-cart-one-bottle-at-a-time/