Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-09-22
How Coffee Is Initiated.

A man who was evidently Obliged, as
ne said, Ito count every penny"
showed a reporter of the sun a brown
paper package of damp black mucil-
ag nous stuff that he said was what he
had bought for coffee. 81 paid eighteen
cel.ts for a pound package OF this in
Vesey street, said he. "and when
prepared it it did not look or smell or
taste Ike coffee. / have examined it.
and l think it is largely made up of
bread crumbs. i took some of it to the
store where my little girl purchased it.
and they admitted it was not coffee, and
gave me package of better Q DDS, but
when my little girl went again she got
this same stuffr' -
81 don't think bread crumbs wor Id
be OF any servi e in adultera ing conee,"
sa d large importer and dealer, q and
think that what the man yousepeaS OF
mistook for bread was the peas and
beans in the composition. Bread would
not weigh enoagh to answer the pur.
pose, and unless [ am mistaken il would
toat to the top of the nd when cooked.
But then SO many things are used in
spurious coffee that l am not prepared
to say that anything yo1 may mention
is not among tn, rest. It is understood
in the trade, Iowever, that the chief in
gradients Tor initiating coffee are beans
and chicory. The avera package Of
prepared cheap coffee is made up OF
one-third Maracaibo and Rio and two
thirds chicory aud beans. Coffee costs
from twenty five to thirty-ei yht cents n
pound, chicory costs but six cents a
pound. and beans are less than half the
pri of ehicory. The beans are roasted
just as coffee Is, then ground and MIXED
with ground coffee. They look like the
genuine ground coffee, but have no
las at ar The chieorv seed a so looks
like the real article after the latter has
been ground, but has a. strong and bit
ter taste, and produces a very black
liquid"
"How can any one be certain OF get
ting genu ne coffee?' -
"By buying it in the bean, either
green or roasted. The whole bean s
never anything but genuine. The sub
sttutes do not look anything like the
10 lee bean, and cannot be mixed w tn
the genuine whole bean without ex-
posture. If you have not got co"ee
mill, which after all. only costs a GU ir-
ter, buy the roas' cd bean and see your
grocer grind it Tor YOU. Never buy cOf-
lee put up ground and in packages.
Never buy what purports to be cheap
coffee. Java is only twenty-five cents
pound. Maracaibo is three cents
cheaper. Colees of all sorts ALWAYS
command their price. and ANYTHING that
purpOrts to be coffee and sells Tor less
than the market price of Maracaibo i.
open to suspicion. No ha is the dear
est coffee. 1t sells for thirty eight cents
POUND. .......
People are so used to bogus coffee
that they do not like the genuine. In
some boarding hoUs IS, hote and res
taurants preparations of chicory ami q
patented article | have here that smell;
to me like licorice are put into co lee to
make it go further. 1t makes a black,
stro & liquid, greatly tanc.ed by for.
! e'gners. know OF grocer " no has 8
good customer to whom he cannot sci
/ genuine coffee. He mixes CHI cory will
it and then she likes it. Much of the
cafe noir. or black Coffee that is rel
ished ut the highest priced restaurants
is made with a larger proportion o.
chicory than coffee, and many peop'C
who are not at all economical buy chico
ry along with coffee because they like {
back, strong drink, 1 suppose. .
There is nothing" said a man wht
lays claim to line taste and wide expe
rience in coffee drinking. like MKT
ure o two-thirds Java and one thirC
Mocha, cooked in an old iashioned til
coffee pot. The Java produces a mile
cream cOlored fluid, with the most en-
trancing aroma. The mocha is darke
and fuller bodied. 1t gives strength Z
the Java without robbing it of any
thing. may be wron p. but 1 insis
that the milk-just little. too nue.
milk spols co Fee-shall be put in tn
cup first Putting the milk on top of tn
coffee is not half so good. Boiling tn
coffee and milk together is criminal =
NJ L