The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-07-07
TRUE AND FALSE COFFEE.
Methods of Making This Drink
Among Different Coffee
and Religion are lnseparable. !
W. L. Alden, in New York Times.

w. u. Alden In New York Times.
There is nothing more saddening to
the earnest Christian mind than the re-
cipes for making coffee that are given in
American cookery books. With hardly
an exception they direct that coffee
should be boiled. As we'll might q Fiian
cookery book direct that q missionary
should be stewed Coffee never was and
nevet can be made by boiling II.
We nj ehf pafdon Mormon or
Central Afticsn pagan Tor boiling coffee,
on the ground that they are in what the
Roman church would call state of in
vincible ignorance; bat for intelligent
Christian people who boil coffee there
can be no excuse. The writer's OF Ameri
can cookery books cannot plead igno.
rance, for 10 most OF them it is mention
ed, in careless way, that French people
make their coffee by pouring boiling
walter on it. This shows that they know
what is right, but perversely follow what
10 wrong.
Boiled coffee can be consumed BY per.
sons OF course tsste when mixed with Q
great deal OF boiled milk, bat when taken
without milk it bears only distant re,
semblance to true coffee. Chemists tel
US that when coffee is boiled certsir
noxious eiements-say bi-chloride o.
mercury and sulpho-cyanide Of potas
sium-are set free. The true coffee fla
vor is thus overpowered, aud the stom
ach OF the consumer is outraged. It i,
the dlinker of boiled coffee who com
plains that coffee is injurious, littl
knowing that they have never tastet
real coffee.
1t is remarkable fact that the coffe
of d nation 10 closely associated will
it's religion. Speaking broadly and gen
orally, it may be said that true or ip{use,
coffee Is the result of Catholicism an,
that false or boiled coffee is the fo1nlt o
Professionalism France, italy ard span
produce true coffee; while England
America and Germany boil their coffee
Even in the latter countries when tru
coffee is found 1t is where Protestantisr
is weak, and high church households j
England and In this country frequentl
drink real coffee. On the other hand,
must he confessed that Catholic Irelan
is as ignorant of coffee as is Calvanistl
Scotland, and for this exception to th
general rule there is as yet no sdequat
explanation. There il no reason VII
D Protestsn,ism should not have tru
: coffee. What II Luther did confne hin
self to beer and Calvin to lime juic
: We who live In more enlightened ae
need not regulate our beverages by ii
example Of the Reformers.- There
i nothing contained either in DEGREES I
T the Countil OF Trent or the Augsbel
Confession as to coffee, ana the Ame
e ican Protestant has as much right
g coffee 90 has Roman Cardinal
There is no duty more important th,
that OF teaching Americans to NAL
coffee. Evangeists ought to 60 up al
down the land awakening men and "
o men 70 the eno.mity OF boiling coffe
Is pot without q strainer should be public
's smashed, and the ofiense OF boiling cof
should ostracizs the offender. With &
d triding exception OF woman, coffee
o the hest eift that man has received.
treat this gift with insult and contem
o by boiling it is an outrage as ungratei
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