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To Roast Coffee
From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883
Serves 20
Use the best quality butter.
Presented as published in 1883. 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 The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 348. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To Roast Coffee (a French recipe). — It being an acknowledged fact 538 THE hearthstone; or, life at home. that the best French coffee is decidedly superior to that made here, and as the roasting of the berry is of great importance to the flavor of the preparation, it will be useful and interesting to know how they manage these things in France. In Paris there are two houses justly celebrated for the flavor of their coffee — La Maison Corcellet and La Maison Royer de Chartres ; and to obtain this flavor, before roasting they add to every three pounds of coffee a piece of butter the size of a nut, and a dessertspoonful of powdered sugar
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