DMcFadden
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It is 9:17 p.m. and I just asked my dear wife to brew up a pot of strong coffee. A very cheap extravagance worth savoring.
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It is 9:17 p.m. and I just asked my dear wife to brew up a pot of strong coffee. A very cheap extravagance worth savoring.
Bald_Brother
Puritan Board Freshman
Black, always black. It is nearly an abomination to pervert coffee with anything. The only time that it is acceptable to treat coffee with anything (other than coffee) is when 2 shots of Jameson Irish whiskey and a single teaspoon of sugar is added then the concoction is topped with a swirl of heavy whipped cream.
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blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
Thanks. I think I'm beginning to understand now. Adding sugar to coffee is an abomination (oh, I can't imagine the depths of darkness we'd be talking about if we added sugar AND cream!)...unless the coffee is mixed with whiskey. In that situation, the abominable practice of adding sugar is ok. Sounds like situation ethics to me. Are there no absolutes in this day and time that we live in?
blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
I hope none of my New Joisey grammar school, junior high, or high school english teachers are viewing this thread. They'd be so disappointed in me.
Just in case any of you teachers are looking in on this thread, I just wanted to let you know that I really was paying attention in class and I just did it that way to see if anybody'd catch it. Normally, of course, I would have written "Coffee Black, Drinkers".
Bald_Brother
Puritan Board Freshman
Well, I did say nearly an abomination. And yes, that is correct.
Not situation ethics at all. I am absolutely positive that one must temper coffee-sugar usage with whiskey, lest one be found guilty of drinking coffee incorrectly.
See?
Archlute
Puritan Board Senior
For the same reason that I don't eat only raw eggs when I want a cookie
I will always remain an unapologetic "candy" coffeehouse drinker. However, if I come across a bag of Peet's Coffee, or pass by their coffeehouse on Hawthorne in Portland, I will drink that black. I have a bag of it in my room right now, in fact.
Rich Koster
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I'm sitting here sipping some Luzianne New Orleans coffee. Black and thick, mmmmmmmm I like coffee stronger than most people make it. 2 cups per day equals about 1 pot of the dishwater most places serve.
BTW, Starbucks has some good beans...... they just cater to the palate of the sweet lover or creamy lover to keep the cash register stuffed full.
DMcFadden
Puritanboard Commissioner
I'm so white, I'm clear. But, I was born a poor black child. Does that count?
Berean
Puritanboard Commissioner
blhowes
Puritan Board Professor
Webservant
Puritan Board Sophomore
Black. Black as night. Why would you pollute it with anything?
Berean
Puritanboard Commissioner
Columbian. Always strong and black.
PresbyDane
Puritanboard Doctor
I drink my coffee black!
I have tried with cream and sugar and I can drink that to, but I prefer it black.
I have tried with cream and sugar and I can drink that to, but I prefer it black.
DMcFadden
Puritanboard Commissioner
Oft hand, I know of several tests of strong coffee.
1. Place a spoon in the cup. If it stands up straight, then the coffee is strong enough.
2. Find a VERY bad asphalt driveway. Pour a cup of coffee on it. If it works as good as asphalt dressing, then it is strong enough.
3. Carefully fold a towel six times. Pour a cup of black coffee on it. If it eats all of the way through in 30 minutes, then it is strong enough.
4. Go without sleep for two days. Drink a cup of black coffee. If you can't go to sleep for two more days, then it is strong enough.
Ivan
Pastor
Okay...so how many scoops or beans per cup?
Rich Koster
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Dennis, I must be a wimp. In regards to #1, I only require my coffee to keep the spoon from falling over for 5 seconds.
LawrenceU
Puritan Board Doctor
Dennis, I may be cut off from my family's vast fortune for doing so, but in your honour I will divulge a long standing family recipe for the best coffee in the world.
Ingredients:
Very Dark Roasted ground coffee beans ground finer than percolated yet not so fine as espresso grind.
COLD Water, preferably this will be fresh spring water. If not that then cold well water. If you must use tap water I feel for you.
VERY IMPORTANT: This coffee is made in an enameled steel coffee pot. They work best with a few decades of soot and ash adhering to the bottom. If you don't have one like that use a new one and start a family tradition. Mine holds one gallon of water. I also have a couple of smaller ones that are not heirlooms, yet.
This recipe works best on an open fire. It can be made on a stove top, a gas stove top. Electric will do, but believe it or not the boil action is not the same.
Making the coffee:
1. Fill the pot with water.
2. Full in a pot like this is to the bottom of the spout, not the top rim of the pot.
3. Place the pot on the fire.
4. When the water is at a full boil remove the pot from the heat. Add a pinch of salt. (Seriously) Let the roiling settle and using a long spoon quickly stir in the coffee grounds. (If you do this when the water is roiling you will most likely be burnt from a 'burp'.)
5. Return the pot to the water and allow it to boil for five minutes. At this point remove the pot from the fire.
6. Open the pot and drop in a clean horse shoe. If it sinks repeat steps 4 and 5 until it floats to the top.
The real step six is: Remove the pot from the heat and and a bit of cold water to settle the grounds. Pour and enjoy.
It takes some experience to know the proportions of water and coffee. Start with a tablespoon for every cup. I make mine stronger than that. Also, remember that coffee like this extracts much more from the grounds than either drip coffee or percolated coffee.
Bald_Brother
Puritan Board Freshman
I should say then, my wife started drinking coffee with cream and sugar. On a diet, cutting out sweets and fats, she first lost the cream then later the sugar. She drinks her coffee black almost exclusively now (the only exception being a finely concocted Irish Coffee).
Curt
Puritan Board Graduate
"At least two?" What are the third - and possibly subsequent senses?
raekwon
Puritan Board Junior
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