Saint Patrick’s Day: Irish Coffee

For the best and most authentic Irish Coffee recipe, THE WIFE sought out San Francisco’s famed Buena Vista Cafe. They’ve pefected and have been serving up this traditional Irish treat since 1952 .”The whiskey is the key to Irish coffee,” says Joe Sheridan, who invented the drink. “Cream as rich as an Irish brogue, coffee as strong as a friendly hand, sugar as sweet as the tongue of a rogue, and whiskey as smooth as the wit of the land.” Click “continue reading” for the legendary recipe. –Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

Ingredients:

• Peerless Coffee
• C & H Sugar Cane Sugar Cubes
• Tullamore Dew Irish Whiskey
• Whipping Cream

Directions:

1. Fill the glass with very hot water to pre-heat, then empty.
2. Pour hot coffee into hot glass until it is about three-quarters full. Drop in two cocktail sugar cubes.
3. Stir until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved.
4. Add full Jigger (1 shot) of Irish Whiskey for proper taste and body.
5. Top with a collar of lightly whipped whipping cream by pouring gently over a spoon.
6. Enjoy it while piping hot.

Image: Martha Stewart.com/Recipe: Buena Vista Cafe