Coffee Popo
Café de PopoThis hot coffee drink is dedicated to the late Al Williams, who was born in Mexico, and became famous for the legendary Papagayo Room, a gourmet Mexican restaurant in San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. Al and his wife, Katherine Williams, later ran a cooking school where I had some of my first lessons in Mexican cooking. The drink is named for the Mexican volcano, Popocatepetl, as Al said, "Hot below, snow-capped above."
Ingredients
Makes 2 servings
- Sweetened Whipped Cream
- 3 teaspoons sugar or to taste
- 2 lemon peel strips 2-inches long × 1⁄2-inch wide
- 2 ounces añejo aged or reposado (rested) tequila
- 2 cups strong freshly brewed hot coffee
Instructions
- Prepare the whipped cream.
- Reserve.
- Put 1 teaspoon of sugar in each of 2 double old-fashioned glasses or coffee cups.
- Twist the lemon peels and drop 1 into each glass or cup.
- Add 1 ounce tequila to each, then fill the cups with hot coffee.
- Top each with whipped cream.
Notes / Tips / Wine Advice:
Serve hot.
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