Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St. Patrick's Day. Show all posts

March 14, 2010

Irish Coffee for St. Patrick's Day

This recipe says that the cream should be "rich as an Irish brogue, the coffee strong as a friendly hand, the sugar sweet as the tongue of a rogue, and the whiskey smooth as the land."

Great-Aunt Isabel brought Johnny (whose family was Irish) home to meet her parents. While he was there, Johnny kept asking for water.  Isabel's mom told her, "If a man's too thirsty, he's trouble." She suspected that it wasn't really water that he wanted--he wanted beer, and Isabel. But Isabel didn't listen to her mother.

Pour a shot of Irish Whiskey into a stemmed 6 oz. glass.
Fill the glass to within a half-inch of the brim with hot, strong black coffee.
Stir in sugar to taste.
Top off with slightly whipped cream--the cream should float on the top.
Don't stir the cream in as the unique flavour is obtained by drinking the hot coffee and Irish Whiskey through the cool cream.