Snowball Old Fashioned - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 1/2 ounces Bourbon
1/2 ounce gingerbread syrup
3 dashes wormwood bitters
Gingerbread Syrup
1100 g water
1000 g unbleached cane sugar
100 g molasses
7 cinnamon sticks
8 whole cloves
12 whole allspice
2 teaspoons fresh ground nutmeg
80 g fresh peeled and minced ginger

Preparation

Gingerbread Syrup (yield is approximately 1/2 gallon):
Crack or smash the dried spices (do not grind).
Toast dry spices in a dry saucepan over medium-high heat, until aromatic.
Cool pan, then add water and bring to a boil; allow to boil for 3 minutes.
Lower heat and add sugar, ginger and molasses and heat again until simmering and sugar has dissolved.
Cool, then pour through a fine mesh strainer to remove graininess of spices and bottle.
Snowball Old Fashioned:
In a mixing glass, combine all ingredients with cracked ice and stir well.
Strain into a Miracle double rocks glass, zest lemon over drink then add ice snowball.