Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-02-09
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the matter.
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Good Coffee
Chicago Chronicle: There IS
no department of the government,
unless it be the postoffce depart
ment, that comes home to the
people like the agriculture depart
meut. Its services in agriculture,
in irrigation, in dairying. in pis-
ciculture and IN a dozen other
branches of human industry are
beyond all praise. Now it pro-.
poses to do for us something more
important than all these put to-
gether. 1t is going to teach US
how to produce a good cup of cof-
fee.
The army and navy are neces-
sary, patents and Indian agencies
have to be looked after, the cur
rency and the tariff are important |
matters, foreign relations are mo-
mentous and everybody prizes his
morning mail, but what is any
one of these affairs or what are
all of them together if the cup of
coffee at breakfast instead of be-
ing fragrant, delicious and refresh
ing is bitter, nauseating and pois-
onous?
A good cup of coffee is one of
the cheapest luxuries ever known
and one of the easiest TO produce
and yet one of the rarest to be
found. 1t can be found, of course,
in the private houses of the veal
thy, in many of the clubs and
occasionally in the better class OF
hotels, but hardly anywhere else.
What is usually swallowed in prl-
vate houses or public restaurants,
though made of coffee and, it may
be. of good coffee, is not worth
the name. It is hard to tell wheth-
er it is more repnlsive or injurious.
Yet, strange to say, there is
only one mistake that can be made
in making coffee and that is to
| cook it too much. When subject
ed to a rnomentaTy boiling and
lthen removed from the. fire it is
a drink for the gods, but if it is
kept at high degree of heat for.
thirty minutes its character is en-
tirely changed and it becomes
almost poisonous. Of the people
who overlook coffee in this way
some do it through ignorance, but
the greater part of them through
greed in order to make it go fur
ther and produce larger. profit.
The agriculture department IS
going to investigate this. subject
thoroughly and especially from
the point OF view of chemistry.
|Itis going to study the cofeenak :
ing of Paris, Vienna and Constan-
tinople, which is largely a trade
secret. It means to find out ifait
can the secret methods OF the
Egyptian coffeemaker who makes
the coffee which the king Of Eng
land drinks. 1t is going to the
very bottom of the subject ard a
year from now it will issue Cir
cular which will tell us the Waole
t story. After that if any one
drinks mean coffee his bloodwill
5 be on his own head
The department has alrady
: given out one interesting fac in
4 regard to good cup of coffee.
! That is that it depeudssilitth or
a not at all on the kind of 'cffee
e used in making it. There at as
S many deterrent kinds of coffe as
g there are of apples, all OF hem
e with different havors and a Of
them good. It is positively
/ delightful after drinking oneiind
'e for a while to turn to aneher.
ie There is, of course, such a 11ng
le as poor coffee or spoileds a1ee,
'e but there is no kind of coffethat
~ will not make good cHp ofotfee
le if it is not cooked too much
e The coffee circular of thagri-
q cultural department will b.wel-
", co;nad eJerywhere. but aft all.