Best Whiskey Sour Recipes

CLASSIC WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Combine the simple syrup, lemon juice and whiskey in a shaker. Fill with ice. Cover and shake for about 30 seconds, until the shaker is frosty. Strain into martini glasses and garnish with a maraschino cherry. This can also be served in tumblers full of ice.

EASY HOMEMADE WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Stir simple syrup, whiskey, and lemon juice together in a glass. Stir in ice. Garnish with cherry.

WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Combine the whiskey and sour mix in a large old-fashioned glass with ice. Stir, garnish with cherry, and serve.
• Combine lemon juice and sugar, then dilute with water and stir to dissolve sugar.

WHISKEY SOUR SLUSH

Steps:

• Mix together all ingredients and freeze.

CHEF JOHN'S WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Bring sugar and water to a simmer in a small pan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat, transfer to a bowl, and let syrup cool completely before using, 15 to 20 minutes.
• Pour 3/4 fluid ounce simple syrup, bourbon, lemon juice, bitters, and egg white into a large cocktail shaker. Cover with a smaller cocktail shaker, or top, and give the cocktail a "dry shake" without ice, about 30 seconds.
• Add 3 ice cubes to the mixture, cover, and shake vigorously until the shaker is very cold and the outside is frosty, about 45 seconds. Uncover and strain into a rocks glass containing one large ice cube. Serve immediately.

CLASSIC WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• In a cocktail shaker with ice, add the egg white and shake briefly to aerate the whites. Then add the whiskey, lemon juice and Simple Syrup with ice and shake well. Strain into 4 rocks glasses over 1 large ice cube in each glass, garnish with a cherry and serve immediately.
• Combine the sugar and 1 cup water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil. Cook, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and let cool completely. Keep covered in the refrigerator up to 1 month.

WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Pour whiskey and sweet and sour over ice cubes in a squat, old-fashioned glass.

FROZEN WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• In a large blender fill blender with cubed ice (about 3/4 full).
• Add one frozen can of lemonade and orange concentrate.
• Add the top shelf whiskey.
• Add 1/4 cup cherry juice.
• Add sugar.
• Blend, high speed.
• Taste if to strong for your taste add ice cold water. re-blend.
• Pour into chilled glasses.
• Fill each glass and garnish with a cherry and orange slice.
• Enjoy! (Drink Responsibly).

FROZEN WHISKEY SOUR PUNCH

Steps:

• Place water in heavy sauce pan and bring to a boil. Add the tea bag and steep for 10 minutes.
• Remove tea bag and add 1 cup of sugar while still hot.
• Let it cool completely. Then add the lemonade concentrate,the Orange juice concentrate and bourbon.
• Place in a freezer container and freeze overnight.
• Before serving remove from freezer and let it sit at room temperature for a while then whip up with hand mixer just before serving.

CANADIAN WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Shake all ingredients together.
• Pour into a glass and enjoy!

WHISKEY SOUR PUNCH

Steps:

• Combine above in a punch bowl add chilled club soda and bourbon last. Orange juice and lemonade can be made ahead and stored in fridge.
• Prepare garnish- thinly slice orange and cherries - discard ends add water and juice from marachino's cherries . Put in a mold and freeze overnight
• Makes 16 cups or 32 - 1/2 cup servings.

LEMON WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Rub the rim of an old fashioned glass with lemon wedge. Fill a saucer with sugar, and dip the glass, upside down, into the sugar.
• Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add whiskey, lemon juice, and 1 teaspoon superfine sugar, and shake until sugar dissolves. Strain into an ice-filled old fashioned glass, and garnish with lemon slice and a cherry.

WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Fill a shaker three-fourths full with ice. Add whiskey and sour mix. Cover and shake until condensation forms on outside of shaker, 10-15 seconds. Strain into a chilled wine or sour glass. Garnish as desired.

IRISH WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Put egg white in a shaker; shake until frothy, 30 seconds. Fill shaker halfway with ice; add whiskey, superfine sugar, and juices. Shake 30 seconds.
• Wet the rims of two short glasses with an orange slice, then dip in sanding sugar. Add ice; pour in drink. Serve, with an orange slice and lemon and lime cherries.

WHISKEY SOUR BALLS

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, mix together the coconut, vanilla wafer crumbs, pecans, orange juice concentrate, vanilla and bourbon. Cover and refrigerate for several hours or overnight.
• Roll the dough into 1 inch balls, and roll in confectioners' sugar. If not serving right away, give them a fresh roll in the sugar just before serving.

JANNELL'S WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Combine sugar and lemon juice in a short glass; stir until mostly dissolved. Mix in water and whiskey. Add ice.

TAMARIND WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• For palm sugar syrup:
• Bring palm sugar and 1/3 cup water to a boil in a small saucepan; cook, stirring occasionally, until sugar is dissolved. Let cool.
• For cocktail:
• For each cocktail, combine 1 1/2 ounces bourbon, 1 ounce lime juice, 1 ounce palm sugar syrup, and 1/2 ounce tamarind concentrate in a cocktail shaker; fill shaker with ice and shake until outside is frosty, about 30 seconds. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice and serve with an orange wedge and a cherry.

LOLO'S WHISKEY SOUR THE BEST!

Steps:

• Combine lemon juice and sugar.
• Add water and stir until sugar is dissolved.
• Add 4 teaspoons cherry juice from the jar.
• Pour one jigger, (1 1/2 ounce) whiskey to each of two ice filled glasses.
• Fill both glasses with the sour mixture. Stir.
• Top with cherries.

WHISKEY SOUR

Steps:

• Combine bourbon, lemon juice, and simple syrup in a cocktail shaker. Fill shaker with ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds.
• Strain cocktail through a Hawthorne strainer or a slotted spoon into an old-fashioned or rocks glass filled with ice. Garnish with orange wheel and cherry.

GREEN IRISH WHISKEY SOUR JELL-O

Steps:

• Make the Jell-O in the usual manner, substituting the above liquid ingredients for those listed on the Jell-O package.
• Chill until set.
• Garnish with lime slices and/or green Maraschino cherries.