dinner, others pre-
FiG. 77.-An After-dinner Coffee Service f^^. ^^ y^^^^ j^ ^^^
the dessert. At a formal dinner, very strong coffee is made
and served without cream, but with or without sugar as
the individual prefers. Such coffee is called cafe noir, or black
coffee. It is served in very small coffee cups, or after-dinner
coffee cups. When cream and sugar are served with coffee,
many think the flavor of the coffee is improved if they are
placed in the cup before the coffee is poured in.
Table manners:
Rule: Coffee, tea, and cocoa should be drunk from the cup.
The spoon is used to stir coffee and to sip it in order to ascertain
if the flavor is right, but should not be otherwise used with coffee
or tea. It seems unnecessary to state that these beverages are
never to be drunk from the saucer.
Cleaning up:
1. Empty the coffee grounds into the garbage can.
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2. Soak the cup in which the egg and coffee were mixed in
cold water.
3. Wash the coffee pot in warm, clean, soapy water, being
careful to cleanse the inside and the spout well, and rinse in
hot water.
4. Wipe the pot dry inside and out and place in its proper place.
5. Wash the other dishes as before directed.
Note to Teacher: If the laboratory is not supplied with coffee pots,
the granite pans, covered, will do just as well.
What has been learned :
1. Coffee contains three compounds; caffeine, tannin, and
aromatic oils.
2. Caffeine is the stimulating principle, tannin is poisonous
and bitter, the aromatic oils give to coffee its aroma.
3. Filtered coffee is less harmful than boiled coffee.
4. Nervous people and children should not drink coffee.
5. The harm arising from leaving the grounds in the coffee
pot for several days at a time.
Filtered Coffee
Materials used:
1 rounding tb of coffee 1 cup boiling water✪ Filtered Coffee
Utensils needed:
French coffee pot
Work to be done:
Place the coffee in the strainer, the
strainer in the coffee pot, and the pot
on the range. Add the water and
allow to filter until all the water has
passed through the strainer. If de-
sired stronger, let pass through again.
Serving : ^^°- '^^' " ^^^^^^ Coffee Pot
Serve at once with cream and cut sugar.
Note to Teacher: If desired, divide the class, allowing one group to boil
coffee and the other to make filtered coffee. But if there is only one French
coffee pot in the laboratory, make filtered coffee as a demonstration lesson.
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Lesson LXm
Coffee (Reading)
Many boys and girls are familiar with the appearance of
coffee berries as they come from the store. They had a long
and tedious journey before they reached the store, for coflfee
berries do not grow in this country. Their home is in far
away Africa in the mountainous country just west of the
Red Sea. It is said that many, many hundred years ago a
certain goat herder in that country noticed that when his goats
had eaten of the leaves and berries of a certain tree, they
became very active and frisky. So he ate some of the berries
himself to see what effect they would have upon him. His
neighbors accused him of drinking wine unknown to them.
Of course he denied this and told them that he had eaten of the
fruit of a certain tree. So they all ate some of the berries and
they liked the results so well that they told others of their
experience. In this way the knowledge spread farther and
farther. Men who had become acquainted with the effects
of the coffee berry carried the seeds with them when they went
to far away regions to make their homes. It was in this way
that the cultivation of the trees spread, at first chiefly in an
easterly direction. ✪ Tea
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dinner, others prefer to have it after the dessert. [illustration: An After-dinner Coffee Service]
the dessert. At a formal dinner, very strong coffee is made and served without cream, but with or without sugar as the individual prefers. Such coffee is called cafe noir, or black coffee. It is served in very small coffee cups, or after-dinner coffee cups. When cream and sugar are served with coffee, many think the flavor of the coffee is improved if they are placed in the cup before the coffee is poured in. Table manners:
Rule: Coffee, tea, and cocoa should be drunk from the cup. The spoon is used to stir coffee and to sip it in order to ascertain if the flavor is right, but should not be otherwise used with coffee or tea. It seems unnecessary to state that these beverages are never to be drunk from the saucer. Cleaning up:
1. Empty the coffee grounds into the garbage can.
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2. Soak the cup in which the egg and coffee were mixed in cold water.
3. Wash the coffee pot in warm, clean, soapy water, being careful to cleanse the inside and the spout well, and rinse in hot water.
4. Wipe the pot dry inside and out and place in its proper place.
5. Wash the other dishes as before directed.
Note to Teacher: If the laboratory is not supplied with coffee pots, the granite pans, covered, will do just as well.
What has been learned :
1. Coffee contains three compounds; caffeine, tannin, and aromatic oils.
2. Caffeine is the stimulating principle, tannin is poisonous and bitter, the aromatic oils give to coffee its aroma.
3. Filtered coffee is less harmful than boiled coffee.
4. Nervous people and children should not drink coffee.
5. The harm arising from leaving the grounds in the coffee pot for several days at a time.
Filtered Coffee Materials used:
1 rounding tb of coffee 1 cup boiling water Utensils needed:
French coffee pot Work to be done:
Place the coffee in the strainer, the strainer in the coffee pot, and the pot on the range. Add the water and allow to filter until all the water has passed through the strainer. If desired stronger, let pass through again. Serving : ^^°- '^^' " ^^^^^^ Coffee Pot
Serve at once with cream and cut sugar.
Note to Teacher: If desired, divide the class, allowing one group to boil coffee and the other to make filtered coffee. But if there is only one French coffee pot in the laboratory, make filtered coffee as a demonstration lesson.
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Lesson LXm
Coffee (Reading)
Many boys and girls are familiar with the appearance of coffee berries as they come from the store. They had a long and tedious journey before they reached the store, for coflfee berries do not grow in this country. Their home is in far away Africa in the mountainous country just west of the Red Sea. It is said that many, many hundred years ago a certain goat herder in that country noticed that when his goats had eaten of the leaves and berries of a certain tree, they became very active and frisky. So he ate some of the berries himself to see what effect they would have upon him. His neighbors accused him of drinking wine unknown to them. Of course he denied this and told them that he had eaten of the fruit of a certain tree. So they all ate some of the berries and they liked the results so well that they told others of their experience. In this way the knowledge spread farther and farther. Men who had become acquainted with the effects of the coffee berry carried the seeds with them when they went to far away regions to make their homes. It was in this way that the cultivation of the trees spread, at first chiefly in an easterly direction.
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