Quite Possibly Your Grandfather's Cocktail...

A classic cocktail in honor of the return of Mad Men...with some homemade bourbon cherries for good measure.

Old Fashioned: 

2 oz bourbon
orange slice
bourbon cocktail cherry
angostura bitters
<1 tsp superfine sugar (or sugar cube)
water
ice

Mix sugar, 2-3 dashes bitters, and a few drops of water in a rocks glass.  Add a slice of orange and a cherry and muddle.  Add 2 ounces of bourbon and ice and stir.

Bourbon Cocktail Cherries:

1 lb bing cherries, pitted

1/2 cup water

1/2 sugar

1 cup bourbon

mason jars

Clean and pit the cherries.  In a medium sauce pan over medium heat dissolve the sugar in water to make a simple syrup.  Once the sugar has completely dissolved and starts to thicken add the bourbon, mix and turn heat off.  Fill clean mason jars (I used 16 ounce widemouth jars) with the cleaned, pitted cherries.  Pour the syrup mixture over cherries almost to the top of the jar.  Close the jars with a new lid and ring.  Process the jars in boiling water for 10 minutes.  Store in a cool dark place for several weeks before eating.  

Optional: You can also add any combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to spice up your cherries a bit.  I planned to use them in several different types of drinks however so I wanted to keep them simple.