Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-23
TRUE AND FALSE COFFEE.

Methods Of Making This Drink Among
Different Nations Coffee aud Religion
are InssparabIe.
Nv. L. Allen, in Nee York Times
There is nothing more ssddening to tn
earnest Christian mind than the recipes for
making coffee that are given in American
cookery books. With hardly an exception
they direct that coffee should be boiled. As
well might Fijan cookery book direct thai
a missionary should be stewed. Coffee
never was and never can be made by boil.
ing it.
We might pardon Mormon or Central
African pagan for boiling coffee, on the
ground that they are in what the Roman
church would call state Of iuvincible ig
norance; but for intelligent Christian peo
pie who boil coffee there can be no excuse.
The writer's OF American cookery books can
not plead ignorance, for IN most of them it
is mentioned, in a careless way, that French
people make their coffee by pouring boiling
water on it. This shows that they know
What is right, but peryerselY follow what is
wrong.
Boiled coffee can be consumed by per.
sons Of coarse taste when mixed with q
great deal of boiled milk, bSt when taken
without milk it bears only distant resem-
blance TO true coffee. Chemists tell US that
when coffee is boiled certain noxious ele-
ments-say bichloride of mercury aud sui
pho-cyanide of po;assium-sre set free
The true coffee flavor is thus overpowered,
and the stomach of the consumer is out
ragged. Il is the driuSer of boiled coffee
Who complains that coffee is injurious, littl-
knowing that they have never tasted real
coffee.
1t is q remarkable fact that the coffee of
nstion is closely associated with its re-
ligion. Speaking broadly and generally, it
may be said that true or infused coffee Is
the result of Catholicism, and that false or
boiled coffee is the result Of Protestsntism
France, Italy and Spain produce true cot
fee; while England, America and Germany
boil their coffee. Even In the latter coun'
tries when true coffee is found 1t is where
Professionalism is weak, and high church
households in England and in this country
frequently drink real coffee. On the other
hand, it must be confessed that Catholic
Ireland is as ignorant Of cot
fee as is Calvsnistie Scotland
and for this exception to the
general rule there is as yet no adequate ex-
PLANTATION. There is no reason why Pro
iestsntism should not have true coffee.
What if Luther did conine himself to beer
and Calvin to lime juice. We who live in
more enlightened age need not regulate our
beverages BY the example of the Reformers.
There is nothing contained either IN de
crees of the Countil of Trent or the Augs'
berg Confession as to coffee, and the Amer
rcan Protestant has as much right to coffee
"a has Roman Cardinal.
There is no duty more important than
that of teaching Americans to make coffee
Eyspgelists ought to 60 up asd down the
land awakening men and women to the
enormity of boiling coffee. Every coffee
not without a strsiner should be pubhely
smashed, and the ofenss OF boiling coffee
should ostracize the offender. With the
trifing exception of woman, coffee is the best
gift that man has received. To treat this
gift with insult and contempt BY boiling 1t
is an outrage as uugrateful as it is brutal