The Opelousas courier., 1885-01-17
How Coffee is Initiated.

A man who was e@islenety obliged, as
he said, ito co mt every penny"
showed "a renoetar n tire iaR a brown
paper pac 80 o. d. Black mucil-
a%ginou5 stuff t-lts he s WIS what he
had bought for co tea. =. Paid eighteen
cents for u poun package of this in
Vesey street." sail !.a. land when /
prepared it it did not ,tpok or smell or
taste like coffee. 4 lave examined it,
and I think iAis ~larEely made up Of
bread crumbs. / tuoS some of it to the
store where my little girl purchased it,
and they admitted It was not coffee, and
gave me a package OF better goods, but
when my little girl went again she got
this same stuff
"Idoa't think bread crumbs would
be of ane Sci EN- authorizing coffee"
said q LARGE ,iiao9*et s1si dealer,
/ think that what The Nal you speak OF
mistook sor brad was the peas and
beans in The com. ~osit;on. Bread would
not weigh eno gin TO answer the pur-
pose, and unless / an mistaken it would
float to the top If the tluid when cooked.
But then so many things are used in
spurious COFFEE hat 7 am not prepared
to say that aayth.ng you may mention
is not among the rest. 1t is understood
in the tra,ie, i.oweEe", that the chief in
gradients for imitnt ne coffee are beans
and chicor-., The avara e package of
prepared cheap coaae IS made up Of
one-third Aiaracaibo and Rio and two
thirds chicery and beans. Coffee costs
from twanty five TO ti1irty-eight cents o
pound, hi@or{ costs but six cents q
pound, and beans are less than half the
price Of CHEEKY. The beans are roasted
just as coffee i. thea ground and mixed
with ground coffee. They look like the
genuine ground coffee, but have no
taste at III. The ch Gerry seed also looks
like the real article after the latter has
been gro nd, but has "a strong and Bit
ter taste, and produces q very black.
liquid
"Haw q any III be certain of get
ting genuine cotfee:2H
"By buying Tin he bean, either
green or roasted. The whole bean is
never anything but genuine. The SUBJ
stitutes do not look anything like the
coffee bean. and cannot be mixed with
the genuine whole aean without ex-
posure. Ii you have not got a coffee
mill, which, after all, only costs a quar-
ter, buy the roasted bean and see your
grocer grind it for you. Never buy COT
fee 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
commend their prise. and anything that
purports to be coffee and sells for less
than the market price of Maracaibo is
open to suspicion. Mocha is the dear
est coffee. 1t sells for thirty-eight cents
a pound.
"People are SO used to bogus coffee
they do not ike the genuine. In
some boarding houses, hotels and res
taurants preparations OF ehieory and a
patented article hare here that smells
to me like licoriee are put into coffee to
make il go further. It makes a black,
fiqad, greatly fancied by for
| know Of a grocer who has q
good customer to whom he cannot sell
genuine co lee. He.anixes chicory with
It and then she likes it. Much of the
aoir, or black coffee, that is re1s
ished at the highest-priced restaurants
made with a larger proportion of
than coffee, and many people
who are not AL economical buy chico.
~ along with coffee because they like a
black, strong drink, | suppose"
There is nothing" said a man who
lays claim to tine taste and a wide expo
rience in coffee drinking, like a MKT
nre OF two-thirds Java and one-third
cooked in an old-fashioned tin
eollee pot, The Java produces a mild
cream colored fluid, with the most en-
aroma. The mocha is darker
and fuller bodied. 1t gives strength to
the Java without robbing it Of any,
thing. I may be wrong. but I insist
the ~milk--just a little, too much
milk spoiis eofIee-shall be put in the
cup tirsts Putting the milk on top of the
coffee is not half so good. Boiling the
coffee and milk together is criminal
N. 7. Sap.
"A Buffalo (N. " reporter was
struck with the number of white horses
in that city. and he took the
to visit the different barns and
ascertain the exact number owned.
He discovered $50. 4 Iiyeryman gave
his reason for having a large num-
Der that hey were kept easier than any