Sour-cherry Old-Fashioned

Ingredients

• 2 sour cherries, stemmed and pitted
• One 2-inch strip orange peel
• 1 sugar cube (or ½ teaspoon sugar)
• 2 or 3 dashes bitters
• 2 ounces rye or bourbon.                    

If you cannot get sour cherries use bing cherries and reduce the sugar