Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — COFFEE AND TEA. [ARTICLE]

COFFEE AND TEA.

The Bean Improves With While the Leaf Deteriorates. ~ Coffee beans improve with age. Five year old coffee Is better thtin the new crop and fetches a higher price in the market. In two years coffee will lose 10 per cent in weight, but it will increase more than 10 per cent in price. Coffee should be used quickly after roasting. brown beans appear oily the oil should be dried off in a quick, hot oven; otherwise it will undergo a chemical change which will affect the flavor. While coffee beans dry with age. teas absorb moisture even when in zinc lined chests. Tea likewise deteriorates with age: It doesn’t lose strength so much as it does its drawing quality, which is another name for flavor or bouquet. So earefnl are the tea packers to insure an entire absence of moisture from the tea when being placed in the zinc or lead lined chests that they have the tea leaves sun dried and then heated before packing. The tea goes into the chests too hot to handle with hare bands and is sealed up in air tight packages before It has time to cool, and before the slightest suggestion of moisture reaches it.—New York World.