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Coffee

From Temperance cook book, 1887

Serves 1

Molasses is preferred by most children.

Presented as published in 1887. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Temperance cook book (1887) by Mary G. Smith, page 131. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

coffee, for no child at first loves these drinks till trained to it. As their older friends are served with green and black tea, there is a white tea to offer them, which they will always prefer, if properly trained, and it is always healthful. WHITE TEA. Put two teaspoon fuls of sugar into half a cup of good milk, and fill it with boiling water. COFFEE. Crumb bread, or dry toast, into a bowl, put on plenty of sugar or molasses, put in one-half milk and one-half boiling water

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