Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-09-06
HOWTOMAKECOFFEE
THERE ARE MANY WAYS, AND CON-
NolSsEURS DIFFER IN TASTES.


American Cooks Who Do Not Know Its
Possibilities-some Recipes which Are
Not Widely Used or Known.
Have you ever passed place where
person was making coffee and inhaled
wandering breeze of the delicious, in
spring fragrance? Every cup of coffee
that is drunk should smell and taste
Just like that fragrant odor, which was
the veritable soul of the berry seeking
to escape from its transmutation into
liquid. Unless you can arrest that slip
perry sylph of opulent fragrance or pre-
vent the entire escape from your coffee
pot before serving you are no expert,
but bungler.
The amount of badly made coffee that
is inflicted ON the public is simply enor-
nous. One connoisseur says that there
are not 90 places in New York, outside
of private houses, where first rate cup
Of coffee can be counted on. Another
man about town says this is gross ex-
aggeration, declaring that no man is
sure of fine cup of coffee in more than
half dozen places in this city. Coffee,
to be fit for civilized drinking, should
be made, he asserts, on the principle of
"little and often." Size in art is of all
sizes. and bulk in coffee making runs
the risk of a dreadful discount in the
appreciation of the learned.
The best kind of coffeepot is one
that has a filter. They can be had of
many sizes and shapes, all the way from
simplicity to an extreme of elegance
To secure good infusion quickly the
ground coffee should be placed in the
cylinder on top of the coffeepot, the
strainer should be pressed down on top
of the coffee, and the boiling water
should be poured over so that the infu-
sion runs slowly. While it filters the
pot ought to stand in a vessel containing
very hot water, SO that the infusion
may keep high degree of heat without
allowing it to boil. Boiling is the spoil
ing of coffee.
If you are making coffee for good
many, take q pounds of Java, p Of
Maracaibo, pound Of Mocha and 7
gallons of water. The Mocha, which is
meant for the aroma or bouquet, should
have been but slightly roasted; the Mar
acaibo, which is for color, should be
well roasted, and the Java, which is for
body and effect, should be roasted just
between the two.
Cafe la Turque is made in pecul-
lar way and only appreciated by pecul-
lar people, The recipe for its compo-
sition is this: Take Java and Mocha in
equal proportions; grind and pass
through very fine sieve. Put ordinary
black coffee, as many cups as needed, in
coffeepot, and for each cup add tea
spoonful of the sifted coffee and lump
Of sugar. Boil this for two minutes;
then take it off and pour in little cold
water to settle it. After it has stood a
few minutes serve it with powdered
sugar.
Iced coffee, in New York style, is
merely cafe noir that has been cooled in
china freezer by placing ice around it,
slightly salted. For what is called
mixed coffee pint of milk, gill Of
cream, gill Of sirup and a quart of
black coffee subjected to the same cool
ing process and served when just this
side of freezing is considered O proper
caper by all who are not real coffee
connoisseurs.
Brandy coffee is prepared by some in
the same way-a gill of brandy and 6
ounces Of sugar to the quart of coffee
taking the place of the other ingre-
dents But brandy coffee to most per.
sons means cup of cafe noir, over
which spoonful of brandy, poured Oh
lump of sugar, has been burnt Just
as the blue fringed golden flame is ex'
piring the spoon should slip into the
coffee, and after one deft stir the CON
tents Of the cup should glide down the
gladdened throat.
A sherbet of coffee is quite fashion.
able now and quite delicious if properly
made To quart of coffee add quar-
of double cream and 10 ounces of sugar,
and if you wish to be very chic add 6
few drops of vanilla essence. Then put
this in freezer with salted ice sur
rounding, keep the sides free as fast al
the ice begins to cling, and when it hal
reached congelation serve in glasses.
Another fashion of coffee drinking
which was first introduced into thi!
country by the Mexicans at the New
Orleans exposition 10 years ago, ant
which is held in high esteem by some
bon vivants, is to make coffee in thu
French way without boiling and ther
mix it with the very richest chocolate
half and half, or one to two, or two tx
one, the second proportion being per
haps the most frequent. This is to bt
served with whipped cream topped witt
little sugar dust. The Mexicans uset
to use the Soconosco chocolate, which il
made with cinnamon addition and il
rich beyond description.
In spite of the injunction about gild
ing refined gold or painting the lily
restless humanity has attempted to i'm
prove on coffee in worse ways than b,
marrying it to chocolate. For instance
take cafe au Kirsch, which is made b,
shaking up black coffee, cracked ice ant
Kirsch wasser in proportions to suit tn,
taste. By devotees of the benign Ara
bian berry this is considered profana
tion and esohewed accordingly, but fol
physical and mental depression, if on'
is not habitual coffee drinker, it is ,
pick me up of rare potency.
Coffee is not food, but stimulan
and an antidote against some kinds o
poisoning. Its excessive use produces
trembling of the hands and disease O
the nntiG nerves To kna1o ono a,ralr