Coffee as it is, and as it ought to be

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Seite 2 - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups, That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
Seite 24 - Jirough it, containing a pound of coffee newly roasted. In another room, exposed to the effluvium occasioned by the clearing out of...
Seite 45 - If it be underdone, its virtues will not be imparted, and in use it will load and oppress the stomach : if it be overdone, it will yield a flat, burnt, and bitter taste ; its virtues will be destroyed, and in use it will heat the body, and act as an astringent.
Seite 23 - Numerous experiments with roasted coffee prove that it is the most powerful means, not only of rendering animal and vegetable effluvia innocuous, but of actually destroying them. A room in which meat in an advanced degree of decomposition had been kept for some time, was instantly deprived of all smell on an open coffee-roaster being carried through it, containing a pound of coffee newly roasted.
Seite 67 - Coffee Milk. Boil a dessert-spoonful of ground coffee, in nearly a pint of milk, a quarter of an hour ; then put into it a shaving or two of isinglass, and clear it ; let it boil a few minutes, and set it on the side of the fire to grow fine.
Seite 6 - ... coffee being the highest price. It may be known by allowing the coffee to stand until cold, when a thick pellicle or skin would be found on the top. It goes farther than coffee, and is generally mixed with chicory, and other vegetable imitations of coffee.
Seite 26 - The influence which coffee, judiciously prepared, imparts to the stomach, from its invigorating qualities, is strongly exemplified by the immediate effect produced on taking it when the stomach is overloaded with food, or nauseated with surfeit, or debilitated by intemperance, or languid from inaction.
Seite 12 - The manufacture of a factitious coffee from the roasted root of chicory appears to have originated in Holland, where it has been practised for more than a century. It remained secret until 1801, when it was introduced into France by M. Orban of Liege and M. Giraud of Horning, a short distance from Valenciennes.
Seite 64 - Put two ounces of ground coffee into a stewpan, which set upon the fire, stirring the powder round with a spoon until quite hot, when pour over a pint of boiling water ; cover over closely for five minutes, when pass it through a cloth, warm again, and serve.
Seite 6 - In various parts of the metropolis, but more especially in the East, are to be found 'liver bakers.' These men take the livers of oxen and horses, bake them, and grind them into a powder, which they will sell to the low-priced coffee-shop keepers at' from fourpence to sixpence per pound — horses' liver coffee being the highest price.

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