Joe Sheridan's Original Irish Coffee

By abrocakes

Ingredients

• 1 1 1 measure Irish whiskey
• 1 1 1 measure strong black coffee
• 2 2 2 teaspooons sugar
• 2 2 2 teaspoons fresh whipping cream or double cream
• Heat the glass. Add the whiskey, add the sugar and the hot coffee.

Preparation

Step 1

Heat the glass. Add the whiskey, add the sugar and the hot coffee.

Float the cream on top of the coffee. (To do this, pour into a spoon rested just on the surface of the coffee: let the cream flow into the bowl of the spoon and overflow onto the coffee. Lift the spoon as the cream builds up, so that a layer of cream builds up on top of the coffee.)

Do NOT try this in coffee without sugar in it: it's the presence of the sugar that allows the cream to float successfully.

Serve. The coffee is supposed to be drunk through the cool cream, not stirred in.