2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14
No, Irish coffee is not a good old drink, with a cup of which it would be so usual to sit by the fireplace on cold evenings or with friends for pleasant conversations in a cozy pub. In fact, it is a cocktail, and it appeared during the Second World War at the dawn of transatlantic flights, when air passengers, flying in a seaplane (called a "flying boat") for eighteen hours from America to Europe and back, stopped at the port of Foynes, County Limerick).
From the plane they transferred to the boat and already in it they got to the seaplane terminal, which was the predecessor of Shannon Airport. By 1942, when a restaurant was established there for travelers staying in Ireland, many celebrities had visited it, including Humphrey Bogart, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward Goldenberg Robinson, Ernest Hemingway and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Irish coffee is the invention of Joe Sheridan, who worked as a chef in a restaurant. This drink in the restaurant was welcomed by passengers who in Ireland were most often met by cold, damp and windy weather. Indeed, a cup of hot coffee or tea was very much appreciated by people atarrival.
One story tells that Brendan O'Regan, who was a food manager, asked Joseph Sheridan to come up with something stronger. According to another version, the idea belonged entirely to Joe Sheridan. Be that as it may, but the result is what is well known to everyone today. When passengers on a plane flying from Bothwood-on-Newfoundland to America with a stop in Foynes had a drink in a restaurant on a cold winter evening, they asked if it was Brazilian coffee. Joe Sheridan, who added whiskey to help warm cold people faster, replied: "No, it's Irish coffee."
I must say that today Shannon Airport often tries to lay claim to his invention, there is even a plaque in honor of the cocktail. Joe Sheridan has gained recognition for having an Irish coffee liqueur sold in the Shannon Airport duty-free shop named after him. The store, by the way, is also called Sheridan.
Of course, over the years, different versions of the drink have been invented. By the time Shannon Airport opened (in 1945), Sheridan had perfected the cocktail recipe that many, many travelers enjoyed with great pleasure at the airport restaurant. One of the visitors was Stanton Delaplane, a San Francisco travel writer who had studied the recipe for delicious Irish coffee for a long time. In 1952, it was first tasted in America, after the cocktail appeared in the Buena Vista cafe, whereStanton Delaplane was invited to work.
According to the original recipe, whipped cream is not added to the cocktail, but only those that have stood for 48 hours. This is one of the main secrets - the cream should float on top of the coffee and it is the 48-hour ones that will not sink. The second secret is that the cocktail is not shaken. Although today it is very often prepared with whipped cream, but this is wrong.
In order to make real Irish coffee, you will need the following ingredients:
- one measure of Irish whiskey;
- one measure of strong black coffee;
- 2 teaspoons of sugar (or 3 pieces of refined sugar);
- 2 teaspoons heavy cream.
Cooking:
- Heat the whiskey glass.
- Pour Irish whiskey into it.
- Add sugar.
- Pour in black coffee and stir gently.
- Add cream by pouring it over the back of a spoon.
After the cream is added, the cocktail is no longer stirred. The true aroma of Irish coffee comes out when you drink coffee and whiskey through cream.
Joe Sheridan used freshly roasted coffee from Colombia in his recipe.
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