The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-05-29
COFFEE At SANTOS
Brazips National Beverage and
the Way It Is Brewed.
A DRAFT OF LIQUID LIFE.
Thick as Thin Maple Strip, Amber
Bright and Crystal Clear, the sedue-
tive Drink Stimulates the Brain,
While u Sets the Nerves on Edge.

Bright and Crystal Clear, the Sedue.
tive Drink Stimulates the Brain
While u Sets the Nerves on Edge.
The coffee of Brazil Is the lowest
priced in the worlds market. Know
ing this fact. was the more surprised
mt the exquisite flavor of the coffee
served in the public cafes of Brazil.
called this apparent anomaly to the at
tention of an old Anglo Brazilian with
whom I dlned In Santos one evening,
and he advanced the opinion that the
Americans, Germans and French, the
principal coffee drinkers, did not know
how to make the beverage
You are all too free with water
and too sparing with coffee" he said.
You spare your coffee and. suppose
---um-well. yes, possibly your nerves"
Then he summoned the head waiter,
held a short conversation with him In
Portuguese and finally induced him to
escort us to the kitchen in the rear and
inaugurate for my benefit the cere-
mony of preparing a fresh tank Of
coffee.
The chef desired it particularly ex-
planned that coffee as generally used
in Brazil was not roasted to the crisp
ness of that treated i'm the United
States. This insures against any but
the most delicate of the favoring es-
sence being extracted In the boiling
and thus imparts smOothness to the
beverage. He also called attention to
the fact that the bean is not ground
fine. Each grain is cracked into not
more than six or eight pieces by being
run through wide set mill and then
carefully blown and sifted to get rid Of
the dust and smaller fragments.
But the main divergence from our
procedure lies in the quantity of coffee
used. An extract of meat advertise
ment defines its product as "a bull in
might the modern Brazilian nectar be
styled "a plantation in a coffee cup"
The chef took four liter measures of
the cracked coffee and added it to just
twice that quantity of warm but not
boiling water in a shallow copper pan.
Here he allowed 1t to soak for five
minutes before turning on the burn
ers, quickly bringing the water to a
boil so violent that pieces of the coffee
were thrown out on the stove.
This agitation was followed by ten
minutes cooling on a side table. at the
end of which time the chef added
half dozen drops of IA pungent liquid
from slender green vial. the nature
of which he refused to divulge, but
which my friend told me was some
kind of a neutralizing agent to elm
mate certain rawness. impalpable to
other than trained paates Almost i'm
mediately a nickel siphon was intro
duced just under the surface. of the |
liquid, and about six liters of it was |
drawn Off from the pan into boiler.
Nothing now remained but the boil
ing down. which took half an hour and
reduced the liquid to volume of three
liters and the consistency Of thin ma
pie sirup. In the boiler it was inky
black. but when poured showed a
stream which was amber bright and
crystal clear. Thus the four iters of
coffee beans made only three-quarters
Of that quantity Of liquid coffee.
If you are not of a nature imperviOus
% the appeals Of the appetite your first
up of coffee in a Santos cafe will be
IN experience. You enter and seat
NJ nna of tho IN hIao ,oot to,od
n refreshing aimiessness over the cool
marble pavement Hidden in tangle
# shrubbery an orchestra is playing
with catch and sob In
that you are sure you have heard
n another incarnation. while an cleo
ric fan placed in palm tree sets a
rOnd aquiver just above your head.
Even the rattle Of the street sinks ,
o a heavy hum and comes to your ear
II peacefulness. Lulled by a VERT able
Dtus eaters spell Of content. you are
bout to browse away and loose your
ancy on a search for the original
Ource of the familiar but elusive melO-
y that is still pulsing in the jungle in {
le patio when somehow you become c
ware that the mozo has set a little |
up before you. which. from the pleas {
nj odor and the thin curl of smoke {
bOve il. might be fu.! Of a fragrant !
lcense.
You lift it to your lips and feel that
range stir of anticipation. that mys-
'riOus foretaste. cal,,d by sentimental 4
Is the soul OF the drink" which e
eals over yos preliminary to slipping {
rare and pungent liquor. Now it Il
'uches your tongue. and you are will z
NJ to swear that the capsule OF liquid 81
fe is dssolying in your month. In a c.
oment more the fumes have risen TO b
)ur brain. thrill of energy goes tin C,
ing through your nerves. and you e
up with the feeling that you o.
e able 10 go out and build railroad
ngle handed. II you can go to sleep
the next twenty-four hours you do
rye gold medal.-New York sun. IN
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