Recipe: Café Diable

Summary: This after-dinner drink will warm your soul, but with a hint of zest is still refreshing enough for summer.

Café Diable

Ingredients:

• 2 cups warm cognac
• 8 lumps sugar
• 4 cloves
• Rind of 1/2 lemon
• Rind of 1/2 orange
• 2 cups black coffee

Instructions:

1. Warm a silver bowl and ladle with hot water.
2. Into the bowl, pour the cognac and add six lumps of sugar, the cloves and the lemon and orange rind.
3. Dip up a ladle of brandy, place two more lumps of sugar in it and set cognac on fire.
4. Lower flaming ladle into the bowl and very slowly pour in the coffee, stirring constantly, while dipping ladles of coffee-brandy mixture and pouring it back until all brandy is ablaze.
5. When the flame dies, serve the Café Diable in demi-tasse cups.

Number of servings (yield): 4

Thanks Moscow Daily Photo for the awesome picture!