Classic cocktails are great fun to recreate, but adding unique ingredients can elevate the flavors. We got some expert advice ...

Though the recipes for making bitters are typically closely-held secrets, some are designed to showcase specific flavors, such as cherry, orange, celery, and even chocolate.

Angostura bitters has been a vital ingredient in cocktails for 200 years, but the recipe has remained a secret that entire time. Here's how, and why, one of the most popular ingredients in bars ...

Simple but endlessly satisfying, this classic sour is a pre-Prohibition era hit. In a cocktail shaker without ice, combine bourbon, lemon juice, simple syrup, and egg white. Dry shake for 20 ...

Nino Padova writes in Liquor.com that "technically, a cocktail is not a cocktail unless it contains bitters . . . a 1803 periodical [notes that a cocktail] must comprise four ingredients: spirits ...

If you buy just three bitters, make one an orange bitters like the two on the left (Angostura and Regans’), plus two traditional “aromatic” bitters: Angostura and Peychaud’s, on the right.

You can add bitters to your breakfast, too. “I tried it with my oats, and I loved it,” Volger said. “I found that especially in oatmeal that’s topped with fruit — whether fresh, or ...

Directions. Make vinaigrette: In a blender, process oil, vinegar, lemon juice, mustard, bitters, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper to taste until emulsified.