Pried Cod’s Tongues. — Well wash eighteen fresh tongues,
drain on a napkin, dip in cold milk, and then roll them one
by one in flour. Put 1 teacupful of clarified butter into
a frying-pan, heat it, gently lay in the tongues, keeping
them separate, and cook for three minutes ; then turn them
on the other side, using a fork, and cook for three minutes
longer. Take them up carefully with a skimmer, put on a
cloth to drain, season with 1 pinch of salt and £ pinch of
pepper✪ Fried Cod’s Tongues. Dress them on a hot dish with a folded napkin, and
garnish with sprigs of parsley. Serve with 1 gill of hot
tomato-sauce in a sauceboat.
COFFEE (Fr. Cafe; Ger. Kaffee; Ital. Caffe; Sp.
Cafe). — The plant by which Coffee berries, or, more cor-
rectly, seeds, are produced is of the same natural order as
the trees from which quinine and cinchona bark are
obtained. Hence it is not surprising to find that Coffee
possesses medicinal properties of a very high order, due
chiefly to its aromatic essential oil and the active prin-
ciple called caffeine, a crystal alkaloid that closely
resembles them (of tea), quinine, cinchonine, and others.
Payen gives the following as the composition of the
Coffee-berry : —
Water 12'000
Woody tissue ... ... ... ... ... 34'000
Fixed fatty matters ... ... ... 10 to 13’000
Gum, sugar, and vegetable acids ... ... 15 500
Nitrogenous matter allied to legumin (vege-
table casein) ... ... ... ... ... 13'000
Free caffein ... ... ... ... ... 0'800
Compound of caffein with potash ... 35 to 5'000
Solid fatty essence ... ... ... ... 0'002
Aromatic essential oil ... ... ... ... O'OOl
Saline matters ... ... ... ... ... 6'697
100 000
Talleyrand wrote: “A cup of Coffee lightly tempered •
with good milk detracts nothing from your intellect ;
on the contrary, your stomach is freed by it, and no
longer distresses your brain; it will not hamper your
mind with troubles, but give freedom to its working.
Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without
causing excessive heat; the organ of thought receives
from it a feeling of sympathy ; work becomes easier, and
you will sit down without distress to your principal
repast, which will restore your body, and afford you a
calm delicious night.”
Fig. 497. Coffee Berries and Beans.
The Coffee-plant ( Caffea arabica ) is a native of Arabia,
and the better kinds are generally known as “Mocha”;
but it is extensively grown in the French possessions in
the West Indies, the seed having been imported thither
in the reign of Louis XIY. (1741) after it had been
cultivated at Amsterdam, and from this seed, which was
of genuine Mocha descent, the West Indian gardens
were stocked. The tree frequently attains a height of
from 12ft. to 15ft., its leaves are laurel-shaped, and the
berries resemble cherries, each containing two “ beans ”
(see Fig. 497). When dried in the sun the husks are
separated from the seeds ; but in their natural (green)
Coffee — continued.
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Fried Cod's Tongues. — Well wash eighteen fresh tongues, drain on a napkin, dip in cold milk, and then roll them one by one in flour. Put 1 teacupful of clarified butter into a frying-pan, heat it, gently lay in the tongues, keeping them separate, and cook for three minutes ; then turn them on the other side, using a fork, and cook for three minutes longer. Take them up carefully with a skimmer, put on a cloth to drain, season with 1 pinch of salt and £ pinch of pepper. Dress them on a hot dish with a folded napkin, and garnish with sprigs of parsley. Serve with 1 gill of hot tomato-sauce in a sauceboat.
COFFEE (Fr. Cafe; Ger. Kaffee; Ital. Caffe; Sp. Cafe). — The plant by which Coffee berries, or, more correctly, seeds, are produced is of the same natural order as the trees from which quinine and cinchona bark are obtained. Hence it is not surprising to find that Coffee possesses medicinal properties of a very high order, due chiefly to its aromatic essential oil and the active principle called caffeine, a crystal alkaloid that closely resembles them, of tea, quinine, cinchonine, and others. Payen gives the following as the composition of the
Coffee-berry : —
Water 12'000
Woody tissue ... ... ... ... ... 34'000
Fixed fatty matters ... ... ... 10 to 13’000
Gum, sugar, and vegetable acids ... ... 15 500
Nitrogenous matter allied to legumin (vegetable casein) ... ... ... ... ... 13'000
Free caffein ... ... ... ... ... 0'800
Compound of caffein with potash ... 35 to 5'000
Solid fatty essence ... ... ... ... 0'002
Aromatic essential oil ... ... ... ... O'OOl
Saline matters ... ... ... ... ... 6'697
100 000
Talleyrand wrote: “A cup of Coffee lightly tempered • with good milk detracts nothing from your intellect ; on the contrary, your stomach is freed by it, and no longer distresses your brain; it will not hamper your mind with troubles, but give freedom to its working. Suave molecules of Mocha stir up your blood, without causing excessive heat; the organ of thought receives from it a feeling of sympathy ; work becomes easier, and you will sit down without distress to your principal repast, which will restore your body, and afford you a calm delicious night.”
Fig. 497. Coffee Berries and Beans.
The Coffee-plant ( Caffea arabica ) is a native of Arabia, and the better kinds are generally known as “Mocha”; but it is extensively grown in the French possessions in the West Indies, the seed having been imported thither in the reign of Louis XIY. (1741) after it had been cultivated at Amsterdam, and from this seed, which was of genuine Mocha descent, the West Indian gardens were stocked. The tree frequently attains a height of from 12ft. to 15ft., its leaves are laurel-shaped, and the berries resemble cherries, each containing two “ beans ” (see Fig. 497). When dried in the sun the husks are separated from the seeds ; but in their natural (green)
Coffee — continued.
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