The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1880-11-04
How New Ysrk ladies' Take Their Tea
and; Coffee.

How New Ysrk Ladies' Take Their Ts
and; Coffee.
- If "a lady calls for hottea or coffee, :
said broadway druggist, .'ewe serf
herTwith a. beverage of precisely, tn
same kind and quite as wen prepared
as she can have made in her own kitchen
We make it with hot Croton water. tn
same as she would. The demand TO
tea IS new, but it is growing, and 70,
will find tea and coffee served in man
drug stores on Broadway and the ave
nues. 1t has come to be an ordinar,
incident Of shopping tour for a lad!
to alright from her carriage and refresl
herself with a glass OF hot tea. Men
too, especially elderly men, often cal
fer tea, The demand for tea, however
IS not so great as for coffee. We reckon
tea as fall and winter beverage. Ii
summer there Is, OF course. very little
demand for hot drinks of any kind. ant
there .arefev.s com aratively, fwho drink
cold tea. Nevertheless, we. make tes
all summer to sell to those who want a,
for its stimulating effects.n ios rlgesE ~
-. No; your right, - said the druggist.
Well, of course, there are ladies who
occasionally request the addition Of a
little something stronger in the way OF
stimulant, but they don't do it, even in
the caseo of soda water, Jas often az many
people suppose; and my experience is
that q person who takes tea or coffee is
a stimulant doesn't generally take
spirits. 81 Perhaps 1 ought to put it the
other way and say that person who has
once accustomed herself to take spirits
as stimulant doesn't want tea OF
course don't keep spirits to dispense
in that way. Pm talking now of what
L know of the business generally
Another druggist said: 81 don't serve
nay tea to ladies in cups and saucers.
and with spoons, but / m thinking Of
doing so.a They like to sip it. We use
glasses because we have been accus-
toned to- serve, al Beverages in that
way over our cOunter.e,rIn the case Of
cold coffee oritea we shall be obliged to
continue the use Of glasses, because it
requires deep vessel to catch Jet OF
soda water without SCATTERING. When
the beverages are 10 Be made hots how
ever, we can pour hot Croton water into
cups and stir up the mixture with a
spoon. 1t is practically impossible to
use hot soda water. The carbonic acid
gas expands and cannot be kept in it."
* A third druggist explained how be
made his coffee and tea: q ri I5tss t.s.r,,
.sTa Tea said he's is made just as the
housewife makes it, only in much larger
quantities and much stronger. It is
naadelvery strong So that we need, not
put enough of it in aglass to cool the
hot water, and yet SO that the glassful OF
liquid shall be of proper strength. When
thesstrong sdecoction ia. first made we 4
put the sugar in andsthus make a strip 4
Of 1t. The sugar operates to preserve
its freshness. When we make coffee A
we put large quantity of freshly ground \
coHee into a vessel with "a steamstiSlft |
cover, but with a perforated bottom,
and then let steam in at the top. The
steam forces its way down through the
coffee It is condensed in its passage
and trickles through the perforated bot
tom in the form Of water. This is also
made intogs sirup by. the addition of
sugar. T. tits so strong that a little of it |
will make a glassful of splendid coffee,
with the addition of hot Croton water.
Some druggists fill q strong vessel full
Of ground coffee. The top and the bot
,om of the vessel are perforated. - Hot
water is then allowed: to pereolate
through the coffee. AS the coffee gets
xetit, swells and since it cannot burst
he vessel it exerts considerable press
Ire on ITSELF This method is slower
han the other. by means Of steam we
ret SO much of the, strength out of the
coffee thata quart of it afterward boiled I
n quart of water will hardly color the
water. -Neao York San. b. eas797 az /