Shows how a transformed base can remain reproducible when preparation and service are explicit. Food-safety guidance is outside scope.
Don Lee’s Winter 2007 house recipe and base preparation.
The Benton’s Old-Fashioned preserves an Old-Fashioned structure while replacing ordinary bourbon with a measured bacon-fat-washed bourbon. The preparation records fat and whiskey quantities, heat, infusion time, freezing, fine-straining, bottling, yield, mixing, ice, glass, and garnish.
PDF sheet 66
Cocktails — Benton’s Old-Fashioned
Checked in local PDF sheet 66 on 2026-08-25.
Evidence
The Benton’s Old-Fashioned preserves an Old-Fashioned structure while replacing ordinary bourbon with a measured bacon-fat-washed bourbon. The preparation records fat and whiskey quantities, heat, infusion time, freezing, fine-straining, bottling, yield, mixing, ice, glass, and garnish.
Location and context
Locator: Local PDF sheet 66
Section: Cocktails — Benton’s Old-Fashioned
This is Don Lee’s Winter 2007 house recipe and base preparation as recorded by PDT.
Annotation
The passage shows how a transformed base remains reproducible when preparation and service are explicit. Food-safety guidance is outside scope and is not inferred.