Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — About Coffee. [ARTICLE]

About Coffee.

The pleasures of coffee are by no means dissipated in the warm weather, when “hot coffee” is not needed as a means of defying the discomfort of cold weather. Cold coffee is a delicious beverage when well made. Coffee ice made of strong coffee frozen in a freezer’ and served in cups with whipped cream is a dainty dessert or a convenient part of the afternoon tea menu; coffee soda is a peculiar summer drink, and few people accustomed to the morning cup of coffee make any difference on account of the weather in this most important feature of the breakfast table. An expert in coffee maintains that the best coffee is made in the old-fashioned tin coffee-pot. “Don’t give me any new patent arrangement for making coffee.” he says; “the old tin pot is the only kind of cooking utensil that preserves the aroma and the full flavor of the coffee.” After the coffee has been boiled and settled pour it in good strength upon a cup half filled with cream and hot milk. Most true coffee epicures have a beverage prepared with full strength that will give a delicious aroma and a true but delicate flavor to a cup of rich cream and boiled milk. Rather peculiarly the average American drinks about the same amount of coffee now that he did eighteen years ago. In 1870 the average consumption for each person was 7+ pounds, in 1888 it was 7f pounds, showing that the taste for coffee neither increases nor decreases. —Boston Journal.