
The Old-Fashioned
In a Collins glass, muddle the orange slices and syrup. Add the sherry and stir briefly. Top with crushed ice and stir a few times to chill the cocktail. Top with more crushed ice, packing the glass fully. Garnish with the orange half wheel and mint bouquet and serve with a straw.
Wildly popular in 19th-century America, the Sherry Cobbler helped popularize both the use of crushed ice and the drinking straw, and was famous enough to be mentioned in Charles Dickens's writing.