The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-10-12
How Coffee is Initiated.

A man who was evidently Obliged, as
he said Ito count every penny" =!
showed q reporter of the Sun brown
paper pac cage of damp black mucil-
az nous stuff that he said was what ho
had bought for coffee. II paid eighteen
cents for q pound package OF this in
Vesey street." said he, "and when I
prepared it it did not look or smell or
taste like coffee. / 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 goods, but
when my little girl went again she got
this same stuffr'
- don't think bread crumbs would
be OF any service ia adultera,ing Coffee"
81 q q large importer and dealer, land
think that what the man you speak OF
mistook for bread was the peas and
beans in the composition. Bread would
not weigh enough to answer the pur-
pose, and unless | am mistaken 1t would
Hoat to the top of the fluid when cooked.
But then so many things are used in
spurious coffee that J. am not prepared
to say that anything you may mention
is not among the rest. It is understood
in the trade, however, that the chief in
! gradients for initiating coffee are beans
and chicory. The average 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 eight cents II
! pound, chicory costs but six cents u
| pound, and beans are less than half the
price Of chcory. The beans are roasted
just as coffee is. then ground and mixed
with ground coffee. They look like the
genuine ground coffee, but have nc
taste at all The chicory seed also looks
like the real article after the latter h as
been ground, but has q strong and bit
ter taste, and produces very black
liquid"
How can any one be certain of get
ting genuine coifec?"
by buying it in tho bean, either
green or roasted The whole bean is
never anything but genuine. The sub
sttutes do not look anything like the
co Ice bean, and cannot be mixed with
tho genuine whole bean without OK
posure. If you have not got cotloe
MILL which. after all, only costs Il quar-
ter, buy the roasted bean and SEQ your
grocer grind it for YOU. Never buy cof-
/ lee put up @rounl and in packages.
Never buy what purportS to be cheap
coffee. Java is only twenty-five cents
pound. Maracaibo is three cents
cheaper. CoIiccs of all sorts always
command their price, and anything that
purpOrtS t. be coffee and sells for less
than the market price of Maracaibo is
open to suspicion. Mo ha is the dear
est coffee 1t sells for thirty eight cents
a POUND.
"Peope are so used to bogus coffee
that they do not like tho genuine. In
some boarding houses. hote s aid res
taurants preparations OF chicory and g
patented article | have hrro that smells
u me like ljcorice are put into olee to
make it 70 further. 1t makes a black,
strong liqu d, greatly tanced by for,
e'gners. know Of a grocer who has G
good customer to whom he cannot sell
it and then she likes it, Much of tho
cate noir, or black Coffee that is rel
ished at the highest priced restaurants
I is made with larger proportion o.
chs cory than coffee, and many people
who are not at oil economical buy chico
i ~ along with coffee because they like
back, strong drink, l suppose"
I "Thcrc is nothing" said man wh'
u lays claim to fine taste and wide eXpe
i rience in coIlee drinking. like mkt
l. ure OF two-thirds Java and one thir,
j Mocha, cooked in an old-fashioned til
G coffee POT. The Java produces a mile
cream colored fluid, with the most on
trancing aroma The mocha is darke
and fuller bodied. 1t gives strength t.
the Java without robbing it Of any
thing. may be wrong. but | insis
. that the milk--just little, too mucl
I milk spoils cotlee-shall be put in th,
cup first Putting the milk on top of the
coffee is not half so good. Boiling the
coffee and milk together is criminal -
~ /. SIN.