Irish Coffee
45 ml Irish whiskey, 120 ml Espresso, 10 ml Sugar, 30 ml Double cream, 1 pinch Nutmeg
The hot toddy glass
The stemmed glass a hot drink is built in, with its collar of cream on top.
About 250 ml in the glasses sold for it
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Where it comes from
The Irish coffee glass is the reason this one exists. The Foynes Flying Boat Museum attributes the drink to Joe Sheridan, a chef there who is said to have put whiskey and cream into a passenger's coffee in 1943; the famous first-serving scene is relayed as a story rather than documented, but the drink and the glass that followed it are not in doubt.
Two words matter to anybody making one, and they are heatproof and stem. The glass has to be built for near-boiling water, because ordinary glass can crack when a hot drink meets it, and the stem is a handle - a hot bowl cannot be held. Warming the glass before the drink goes in makes the shock smaller still, which is why a bar keeps hot water in the cup while it builds the coffee.
What to look for
Look for heatproof or tempered on the label, a stem or a handle, and a bowl wide enough to take a spoon. Never pour boiling water into a glass you are not sure of.
Served in a stemmed heatproof glass
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