The recipes in the Real German Cuisine Challenge are from the German recipe book Die echte deutsche Küche and will be translated by me over the next couple of years.
Pharisäer (Pharisee)
Coffee with rum
Ingredients for 4 portions:
- 1/8 liter cream
- 1/2 liter hot, strong, brewed coffee
- Sugar cubes, to taste
- 4 shots of rum
Preparation time: about 10 minutes
Per portion: 220 calories
Directions:
- Warm the coffee cups by filling with hot water. Beat the cream until stiff peaks form.
- Pour the water out of the cups. Fill with the freshly brewed coffee. Add 1-2 cubes of sugar, if desired, and stir till dissolved.
- Pour a shot of rum into each cup. Top with a small scoop of whipped cream and serve immediately. Don’t stir — the hot coffee is to be slurped through the cream.
- A recipe with a story: The weather-beaten coastal residents of the North Sea have always had a passion for freshly-brewed, strong coffee — as opposed to their tea-drinking cousins from the beaches of the Baltic Sea. Especially appreciated was the black brew with a rich ingredient that was a hallmark of Flensburg: Rum! Nothing weighed on the brave people more though, than to bother their watchful preacher with this small vice. And so they camouflaged the feel-good cup — in the form of an airy dollop of cream. Naturally, it didn’t take long for the man of God to discover their tactic and in his outrage he cried: Oh, you pharisees!
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