The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-06-24
PREPARING COFFEE.

The following article on the pre-
paration of coffee here, there and
everywhere" is from the pen of
Amanda B. Harris, and appears in
Good Housekeeping for April:
"While reading some recent
books of travel, l was much inter-
ested In the different ways the
coffee drinkers in several foreign
countries have of preparing their
favorite beverage. First, let San
Francisco lady be heard from:
Mrs. Clara Moyse Tadlock, who
made a flying trip around the
world a few years ago, and pub
lished an account of her travels
under the taking title of Bohe-
milan Days She saw many things
that a woman would specially
notice while man would hardly
SEQ them at all. Among other
things she found worth telling
about, was how they make coffee In
Egypt. She says:
al bought in the Cairo bazaar
a small copper coffee-pot like a
baby's rubber rattle minus one end,
and learned that the coffee was
made by grinding as fine as -four
large teaspoonful, adding as much
sugar and q couple of teaspoonfuls
of boiling water, holding thrice
over the fire until it boiled, cooling
between times, when it became
rather thick, but rich, dark, frothy-
tipped and altogether delicious.
She pronounces it the best
coffee in the world and cannot
our quick witted housekeepers be-
lieve 1T, and seeing at once wherein
the magic lies, act upon the Egyp-
tians' experience, even without the
Egyptian coffee-pot2
Next bear Mrs. Elisa McHat-
ton Ripley, in that fascinating
book, From Flag to Flag, every
word of which is true. Here IS the
method in Cuba, where she lived
several years:
stone of the sights that arrests
the eve of the stranger In Cuba is
the multitude of bags hanging al
the door of every little shop ano
for sale at every shop in the coun'
try as we'll as in town-bags o
coarse red flannel, fitted with I
hoop around the top and terminal
ing in point at the bottom; bag
of every size, from those tina
would contain only pint to other
with the capacity of many gallons
These are the coffee pots of Cuba
from which come the most deliclou
draughts of that much priced an
much dlsparaged beverage. Hall
filled with finely pulverlzed COTE
ard suspended from hook on tn
wall, cold water is gently poure
on from time till the whole mass
saturated. The first drops whic
fall into the receiver placed beneat
the bag are thick and black. On
spoonful in a cupful of boiling mil
Yields a draught of coffee that
Righteousness itself, such as is NJ
to be found in any other land. III
red bag hangs day and night, al
the process of dripping coffee
ceaseless. All classes and ag
offer and drink it as freely as
do water. The wealthiest bank
and the poorest peasa
use the same red flannel b;
and drink the same coffee
"And now another lady, Ml
Louise Yescelius Sheldon, auth
CT Yankee Girls in Zululan
gives an entirely different metho
She says that in Zululand the pc
pie drink coffee at every meal a
any time through the day as tn
want it. The Dutch not only IA
it morning, noon and night
themselves, but it is always on t
fire, ready for any OF their Dat
friends who pass near them Th
use two kettles, boil the water
one, and then pour it on the coff
which is ready in the other,
hack and forth several times, Ia