The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-09-22
How Coffee Is Initiated.

A man who was evidently Obliged, Is
ne said. ''tO count every penny"
showed reporter of the Sun brown
paper package of damp black mucil-
az nous stuff that he said was what he
had bought for coffee. II paid eighteen
ceLts for pound package of this in
Vesey street." said he. "and when l
prepared it it did not look or smell or
taste Ike coffee. l have examined it,
and think it is largely made. up OF
bread crumbs. 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 e DDS, but
when my little girl went again she got
this same stuffr'
Il don't think bread crumbs would
be OF any servi in adultera ing Coffee
sa d a large importer and dealer, "and
| think that what the man you SPEAK of
mistook for bread was the peas and
beans in the composition. Bread would
not weigh emo lgh to answer the pur
pose, and unless am mistaken il would
foat to the top of the fluid when cooked.
But then so many things are used in
spurious coffee that am not prepared
to say that anything You may mention
is not among tn, rest. 1t is understood
in the trade, foweve-, that the chief in
gradients for initiating coffee are beans
and chicory. The averare package Of
prepared cheap coffee is made up OF
One-third Maracaibo and Rio and two
thirds chicory and beans. Coffee costs
from twenty five to thirty-ei rht cents a
L,,f 81 &c
pound. and beans are less than half the
pri of chicory. The beans are roasted
just as coffee is. then ground and mixed
with ground co Zee. They look like the
genuine ground coffee, but have no
ias at all. The chicorv seed a'so looks
like the real article after the latter has
been ground, but has 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 is
never anything but genuine. The SUBJ
stitutes do not look anything like the
20 fee bean. and cannot be mixed with
the genuine whole bean without ex-
posure. If you have not got coeee
mill, which. after all, only costs quar-
ter. buy the roas' ed bean and see your
grocer grind it for you. Never buy cof-
Zee put up ground and in packages.
Never buy what purports to be cheap
coffee. Java is only twenty-five cents
a pound. MaracaibO is three cents
cheaper Cofees of all sorts always
command their price. and anything that
purports to be coffee and sells for less
than the market price of Maracabo is
open to suspicion. No ha is the dear
est coffee. 1t sells for thirty-eight cents
a round.
"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 and a
patented article l have here that smells
TO me like licorice are put into coiee to
make it 90 further. 1t makes a black,
stro g liquid. greatly fanc;ed by for
egners. know of a grocer who has a
good customer to whom he cannot sell
genuine coffee. He mixes ch.cory with
it and then she likes it. Much of the
cafe nOir, or black Coffee that is rel
ished at the highest priced restaurants,
is made with larger proportion Of
chicory than coffee, and many people
who are not at all economical buy chico
~ along with coffee because they like q
back. strong drink. 1 suppose.
There is nothing said man who
lays claim to tine taste and a wide expe-
rience in coffee drinking. ''like a mkt.
ure two-thirds Java and one third
Mocha, cooked in an old-'ashioned tin
coffee pot. The Java produces a mild
cream colored fluid, with the most en-
trancing aroma The mocha is darker
and fuller bodied. 1t gives strength to
the Java without robbing it of any
thing. ImGy be wron but l insist
that the milk-iust little, too much
milk spo;ls co Fee-shall be put in the
cup first. Putting the milk on top of the
coffee is not half so good. Boiling the
coaee and milk together is criminal