Coffee-Mill
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1859
name: label: Donor Name
content: Charles Laszlo
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ITS CRANK IS PUT INTO ITS UPPER, HOLLOW PART, WHITHER THE UNGROUND COFFEE IS PUT IN AND THE GROUND COFFEE DROPS INTO THE LOWER HOLLOW. WHEN THEY TRAVEL OR WHEN THEY GO OUT ON A PICNIC THEY TAKE WITH THEM NO'S. 12;13;14;15;16;& 17(ORIGINAL NUMBERS) AND BESIDES ROASTED BUT UNGROUND COFFEE, FINE SUGAR, AND A COPPER OVEN. AFTER ARRIVING AT THE PLACE OF DESTINATION THEY BUILD A FIRE WHICH THEY SIT AROUND AND KEEP WATER BOILING IN THE OVEN, READY TO MAKE COFFEE AT ANY MOMENT, WHICH THEY DRINK VERY FREQUENTLY COFFEE FOR THE TURKS IS WHAT IS LAGER BEER FOR THE GERMANS. THEY MAKE THEIR COFFEE IN THIS WAY: PUT THREE TEASPOONSFULL FINE GROUND COFFEE AND SO MUCH FINE SUGAR INTO THE COFFEE POT (ORIG. NO 12), POUR IT FULL WITH BOILING WATER AND HOLD IT ON THE FIRE TO BOIL IT UP ONCE MORE AND WHEN IT IS BOILING AND FOAMING SERVE IT TO THE COMPANY IN THE CUPS WHICH THEY HOLD IN THE HOLDER AND SIP IT HOT WITH THE SEDIMENTS UNSETTLED. SOME DON'T PUT SUGAR IN THEIR COFFEE BUT THEIR COFFEE IS INVARIABLY VERY WEAK BUT THEY DRINK A GREAT DEAL EACH DAY." FROM NOTE ON ORIGINAL LIST. LOANED TO THE RENWICK GALLERY JULY 18, 1972."
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Turkey (Türkiye), Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 000305
label: USNM Number
content: E924-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coffee Grinder