Irish coffee

Two miles inland from the Giant's Causeway lies Bushmills, the oldest whiskey distillery in the world. Tourists have been stopping here to refresh themselves since 1608!

Ireland is famous for its whiskey which has a taste quite different from Scotch. (Notice that it's spelt differently from Scotch whisky, which has no 'e'.) Here is one well-known way of drinking it:

Pour a measure of Irish Whiskey into a cup of black coffee and sweeten to taste. Pour cream onto the coffee so that it floats on top. (This is best done by pouring the cream carefully over the back of a spoon.) The coffee is then drunk through the cream.

Susan Sheerin, Jonathan Seath, Gillian White: Spotlight on Britain; Oxford University Press, 1985, page 110