Fresh Whiskey Sours - cooking recipe

Ingredients

3/4 cup whiskey (Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey is recommended)
1/2 cup fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/2 cup fresh squeezed lime juice
2/3 cup sugar syrup
ice cube
maraschino cherry

Preparation

Note: to make sugar syrup, bring 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar to a boil, simmer until the sugar is completely dissolved; chill before using.
Combine the whiskey, lemon juice, lime juice, and sugar syrup.
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice; pour in the drink mix 2/3 full.
Shake vigorously for 15 seconds and strain into glasses.
Add a maraschino cherry and serve ice cold.