Irish Coffee

Day 1,633, 06:54 • Published in Ireland South Africa • by Domagoj 93

Irish coffee is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and brown sugar, stirred, and topped with thick cream. The coffee is drunk through the cream. The original recipe explicitly uses cream that has not been whipped, although whipped cream is often used. Sugar should be brown and not white.



Although different variations of coffee cocktails pre-date the now-classic Irish coffee by at least 100 years, the original Irish coffee was according to sources invented and named by Joe Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick but originally from Castlederg, County Tyrone.



Foynes' port was the precursor to Shannon International Airport in the west of Ireland; the coffee was conceived after a group of American passengers disembarked from a Pan Am flying boat on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan added whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After the passengers asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told them it was "Irish coffee"







a man who started all Stanton Delaplane




Stanton Delaplane, a travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, brought Irish coffee to the United States after drinking it at Shannon Airport, when he worked with the Buena Vista Cafe in San Francisco to start serving it on November 10, 1952.



Preparation:

Black coffee is poured into the mug. Whiskey and at least one level teaspoon of sugar is stirred in until fully dissolved. The sugar is essential for floating liquid cream on top. Thick cream is carefully poured over the back of a spoon initially held just above the surface of the coffee and gradually raised a little. The layer of cream will float on the coffee without mixing. The coffee is drunk through the layer of cream.



-makes 2 cups-

300 ml water
3 tsp instant coffee
30 ml whiskey
2 tsp (brown) sugar
100-150 ml whipping cream

1. Lightly whip the cream (very soft peaks).
2. Rinse 2 cups with hot water. Put 1 tsp and 15 ml whiskey into each cup and stir until sugar dissolves.
3. Heat 300 ml water until it boils. Stir in coffee. Then pour it into each cup. Let stand for a few minutes and then add very lightly whipped cream on top of each cup.




Enjoy in your coffee 🙂