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Directions: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.
Try topping it with whipped cream with some Bailie's Irish Cream liqueur drizzled on top. At Christopher's Restaurant in Beverdale, DesMoines, Ia they drizzle a little Green Creme deMenthe on top! How Irish is that?
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Personal
Notes: Both Cliff and I worked at Christopher's as bartenders before or during college. Joe Guidissessi was the owner. He was a dear friend and he truly cared about our entire family. I had my first legal drink, at the ripe old age of 18, at Christopher's. Mom and Dad used to take us there for our birthdays. They told the waitress that no matter what I ordered to bring me lobster...I wasn't spoiled, no not I! Like clock work on my birthday I was told to order off of the children's menu and i would get all huffy, then when my meal arrived it would be Broiled cold water Lobster tail. Lobster has never tasted as good as it did in those days. I don't know whether it was the quality of the Lobster or the fact that it was so special!
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