Few cocktails embody the cozy nostalgia of winter quite like the Gingerbread Old Fashioned —a drink that fuses the oldest cocktail template in American history with the warm, aromatic world of holiday baking. Rich with molasses, spice, and oak, it’s a contemporary seasonal riff that carries centuries of cultural memory: colonial molasses trade routes, early American whiskey culture, European gingerbread traditions, and the 19th-century birth of the Old Fashioned itself. I. Or
