Irish Coffee - Simple Recipe

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Irish coffee (Irish: Caife Gaelach) is a cocktail consisting of hot coffee, Irish whiskey, and sugar, stirred, and usually 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. Irish coffee may be considered a variation on the hot toddy.

Origin

The original Irish coffee was invented by Joseph Sheridan, a head chef at Foynes, County Limerick. 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 at the airport on a miserable winter evening in the 1940s. Sheridan decided to add some whiskey to the coffee to warm the passengers. After being asked if they were being served Brazilian coffee, Sheridan told the passengers that it was Irish coffee.

Stanton Delaplane, travel writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, claimed to have brought Irish coffee to the United States when he convinced the Buena Vista bar in San Francisco to start serving Irish coffee on November 10, 1952.

However, since around or before that date the beverage has been served at Tom Bergin's Tavern in Los Angeles, where a large sign reading "House of Irish Coffee" has been in place since the early 1950s.

  INGREDIENTS  

2 oz. Irish whiskey

5 oz. coffee

2 tsp. sugar

heavy cream

 PREPARATION 

 1. Pour the whiskey, coffee, and sugar into a stemmed, heated glass mug. 

 2. Stir, then top off with a thick layer of lightly whipped heavy cream. If too lazy or inebriated to bother whipping the stuff, just pour an ounce or two in over the back of a spoon. In either case, don't stir it in.