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Boston Iced Coffee

The Boston Iced Coffee is a great drink to sip with friends or sitting by a fire. Make a cup for you and a friend.

Boston Iced Coffee is a cool warming drink. It's a great winter drink.

Boston Iced Coffee Ingredients

Boston Iced Coffee Drink Recipe

  1. chill fresh coffee
  2. pour all ingredients into a highball glass
  3. stir
  4. garnish with a lemon twist

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The city recovered after 1800, becoming the transportation hub for the New England region with its network of railroads, and even more important, the intellectual, educational and medical center of the nation. Along with New York, Boston was the financial center of the United States in the 19th century, and was especially important in funding railroads nationwide.

Ritchie Ritchie Coffee Cocktail

This is a fun and strong after dinner or cold winter night. It has a bit of a kick to it.

This a simple drink to make and will spice up your Starbucks. When you make this, use a great quality coffee, peferrably a dark roast.

Ritchie Ritchie Ingredients

Ritchie Ritchie Drink Recipe

  1. pour the rum
  2. add dark creme de cacao
  3. add white creme de cacao
  4. add coffee into an irish coffee cup
  5. pour the cream carefully over the back of a teaspoon so that it floats on top of the drink
  6. dust with cinnamon

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Richie Rich, the poor little rich boy made his debut as a backup feature in "Little Dot", in 1953. Although artist Warren Kremer and Harvey Editor Sid Jacobson both lay claim that they created the character (and in the case of Warren, named him after his son), the realities of the situation point to Harvey Comics founder, Alfred Harvey as Richie's creator, as early as the 1930s.

Baileys Spiced Coffee

The idea of mixing Bailey’s Irish Cream and pear-flavored liqueur might sound odd but this drink recipe is a nice change for someone who normally drinks Baileys straight up and it’s pretty good. If you don’t have Baileys with a Hint of Coffee, you can try a splash of Kahlua.

Baileys Spiced Coffee Recipe

  • 2 oz. Baileys with a Hint of Coffee
  • 1 oz. pear-flavored liqueur

Directions

  1. layer pear-flavored liqueur first
  2. top with Baileys with a Hint of coffee
  3. garnish with nutmeg and a grind of seasoned pepper

There are many pear flavored liqueurs here’s a partial list: Kruskovac, Poire Williams Liqueur, Belle de Brillet, Rothman & Winter Orchard Pear, Kammer Williams Pear, Xante Pear. There are a number of pear brandy’s the might work in this drink. Experiment and find what you like.

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Baileys Irish Cream is an Irish whiskey and cream based liqueur tha is made by Gilbeys of Ireland. The trademark is currently owned by Diageo. It has a declared alcohol content of 17% alcohol by volume. Baileys is currently produced in Belfast.

According to the manufacturer, Baileys has a shelf life of 24 months but no one has tested that theory since Baileys is so good, it usually gets drank rather quickly. It should be stored between 5 and 25 degrees Celsius, or 41 to 77 degrees Fahrenheit.

Calories in Baileys Irish Cream

Assuming a size of 1.5 oz or 43g:

  • Fat: 5.7 g
  • Total Carbs: 11 g
  • Protein: 1.3 g
  • Calories: 144

Black Gold Coffee Recipe

  • 1/4 oz triple sec
  • 1/4 oz ameretto
  • 1/4 oz irish cream (Bailey’s)
  • 1/4 oz hazelnut liqueur
  • 4 oz fresh coffee
  • 1 dash cinnamon schnapps
  • shaved chocolate
  • whipped cream

Use unflavored coffee in a Black Gold Coffee Drink.
black gold coffee recipe

Black Gold Drink Recipe Directions

  1. Using an Irish Coffee mug:
  2. add triple sec
  3. add amaretto
  4. add Bailey’s Irish Cream
  5. add hazelnut liqueur
  6. add fresh coffee (dark roast, if available)
  7. add cinnamon schnapps
  8. stir
  9. Top with whipped cream and shaved chocolate

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The History Of Black Gold In Texas
When the oil well near Beaumont blew in on Jan. 10, 1901, the “gusher” — the term was coined because of Spindletop — did more than make a bunch of people filthy rich. It divided history, not only in Texas, but the rest of the world, into two parts: everything that came before Spindletop, and everything after it.

At a time when “successful” wells produced 100 barrels of oil a day, Spindletop spewed at a rate nearly 1,000 times that fast. It dumped 800,000 barrels onto the fields surrounding the shattered derrick until its owners capped the hole nine days later.

The world, thirsting for a cheap alternative to coal and a fuel fit for the newfangled automobile and the soon-to-be invented airplane, had been sitting at the brink of a precipice.

The well was the brainchild of Pattillo Higgins, a one-armed, self-educated real estate man and Sunday school teacher in Beaumont. Higgins, who didn’t have any formal training in geology or engineering, thought a salt dome formation about four miles south of town might contain oil.

It took several years and a couple of dry holes, but Spindletop proved them wrong at 10:30 a.m. on Jan. 10, 1901. The ground shook. Mud spurted out of the 1,020-foot well, followed by an explosion of gas that shot the drill bit and hundreds of feet of pipe out of the hole and up through the derrick, knocking off its crown block.

The drillers congratulated themselves and waited for the column of thick, black gold and green crude to subside. It didn’t. After nine days, they finally managed to put a lid on Spindletop.

The seemingly infinite abundance of oil also put an end to what had been an ongoing debate about the fuel source for one of the newest forms of transportation: the automobile.

For 50 years, the industrial complex between Beaumont and Houston was the largest source of refining and petrochemicals in the world. OPEC and automation of the refineries changed things in the 1970s and 1980s. But most of the world’s largest petrochemical companies still have a sizable presence in the area, along with service companies offering expertise in exploration, drilling and refining.

Houston is still clearly the energy capital of the world. That’s the real legacy of Spindletop and Texas Black Gold. Next time you have Black Gold Coffee, remember Texas Black Gold and how it all began.

Cappuccino Mocha Drink Recipe

Cappuccino Mocha is the after dinner version of the common Italian drink.

Cappuccino Mocha Drink Recipe Ingredients

  • 3 oz hot espresso
  • 3-4 oz steamed milk
  • 3/4 oz coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
  • 3/4 oz cream de cacao

Cappuccino Mocha Drink Recipe Directions

  1. add hot espresso to irish coffee glass or traditional coffee mug
  2. add coffee liqueur (Kahlua)
  3. add cream de cacao
  4. steam milk
  5. add steamed milk to mug
  6. dust with powered chocolate or cinnamon

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The history of the word cappuccino exemplifies how words can develop new senses because of resemblances that the original coiners of the terms might not have dreamed possible. The Capuchin order of friars, established after 1525, played an important role in bringing Catholicism back to Reformation Europe. Its Italian name came from the long, pointed cowl, or cappuccino, derived from cappuccio, “hood,” that was worn as part of the order’s habit. The French version of cappuccino was capuchin (now capucin), from which came English Capuchin. The name of this pious order was later used as the name (first recorded in English in 1785) for a type of monkey with a tuft of black, cow like hair. In Italian cappuccino went on to develop another sense, “espresso coffee mixed or topped with steamed milk or cream,” so called because the color of the coffee resembled the color of the habit of a Capuchin friar. The first use of cappuccino in English is recorded in 1948 in a work about San Francisco.
Because of all this history, you can now have a Cappuccino Mocha whenever you want. Too bad Starbucks doesn’t serve this mixed drink version. For the best Cappuccinos, it has to be made in the Italian tradition. In the United States, the best Cappuccinos are made in New York City.

Irish Coffee Recipe

You don’t have to be Irish or a Leprechaun to like Irish Coffee. If you like your coffee spiked with the fun of Irish Whiskey, you’ll love Irish Coffee. This is a drink you can’t have alone. The Irish love a party and a great way to make some friends is by serving Irish Coffee. Enjoy.

Irish Coffee Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 oz Irish whiskey
  • 6 oz brewed coffee
  • cream
  • sugar

Irish Coffee Directions

  1. sweeten coffee to taste
  2. add wiskey
  3. stir
  4. float cream on top

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Famous Irishmen Saint Patrick…Not Irish!
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U2		 Saint Patrick didn’t drink Irish Coffee. He was born in Roman occupied Brittan in the 5th century. Most scholars believe he was born in what today is considered Scottland. Magnonus Sucatus as he was born was sold into slavery before escaping. Later, renamed Patricius the noblemen. Saint Patrick spent his life imparting religion to the heathens.

Most modern studies of Saint Patrick follow a variant of T. F. O’Rahilly’s “Two Patricks” theory. That is to say, many of the traditions later attached to Saint Patrick originally concerned Palladius, who Prosper of Aquitaine’s Chronicle says was sent by Pope Celestine I as the first bishop to Irish Christians in 431.