Coffee Territory

“Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love” Turkish Proverb

Coffee with cream and ice-cream

coffee with creamIngredients

  • 100g of ice-cream without filler
  • grinded coffee beans
  • pinch of vanilla sugar
  • 50g of cold of strong coffee
  • 50g of 20% cream

Preparation

Put in the glass ice-cream, cold strong coffee, then previously whipped cream and a pinch of grind coffee beans. Don’t stir finished drink. Serve with a drinking straw.

Coffee on your window-sill

coffee treeIf you have got a coffee sapling, it is quite easy to grow coffee tree in a flat. But growing of these seedlings is connected with a number of difficulties. As I already knew, coffee beans should be planted straight away after harvesting. So I got two berries, peeled them from outer red skin, washed carefully and planted into the flowerpots. The care was up to the mark. But they have been staying for two, three and even five months, and I had not got any results. Then I digged out the ground and saw that they were off and away – beans were simply rotted.

By that time my friends had already ripe berries on the other coffee bush, and again I got a pair of them (at that, one of them had two grains, however it should be only one). Now I decided to deal with them in such a way as I have done with seeds of tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins. I put them on a humid filter (toilet) paper into the Petri dish. The seeds were absolutely fresh, but during the observation (about two months) I have not noticed any changes, like swelling, point of sprouting, etc.
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Coffee aroma

strawberryIngredients

  • 100 ml of chilled milk
  • 10g of instant coffee powder
  • 50g of ice-cream
  • 20 ml of 20% cream
  • 40g of strawberries

Preparation

With a help of mixer whip milk, ice-cream, strawberries and instant coffee. Finished drink pour into the glass and top with whipped cream.

Types of coffee packages

coffee packageCoffee is a freak product. Especially it concerns its storing, which working time depends on the package. How coffee should be packed for better shelf life?

The main purpose of coffee package – do not let oxygen to the beans. Entering into chemical reaction with oxygen, fats, which are contained in coffee beans, are oxidized. That distinctly worsens the taste of the product. That is why the package quality of roasted coffee has a profound effect on the shelf life of this product.

In paper bags coffee keeps its quality about two weeks, in foil bags – till three months, and in tight packs coffee can be stored up to six months. Longest, coffee is stored in ordinary glass jar.
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Czech coffee

Ingredients

  • 7 ml of coffee
  • 40 ml of hot milk
  • 50 ml of water

Preparation

Rinse metallic coffee pot with a hot water. Stir coffee with hot water and put on the fire. Simmer, let scum rise, take away from the fire, pour hot milk and let brew for three minutes.

Coffee in beans

coffee beanUnfortunately, the flavor of ground coffee becomes worse immediately after grinding. Or after you have opened the vacuum packaging.

Theoretically, coffee should be ground on your own just before cooking. If you take coffee beans at home, it begins to lose its quality after a week of storage. The experts advise buying at a time no more than 200g of beans.

The beans should be of a regular shape, velvety to the touch and not too small.

The color may be different, but keep in mind – the higher is the roasting temperature, the darker is a bean.
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Yemen coffee

Yemen coffeeIngredients

  • 100 ml of water
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar
  • 10 ml of coffee

Preparation

Put sugar into the Turkish coffee pot and put on the fire. When sugar will getting melt and became brown, put water and bring to the boil.
Take away Turkish coffee pot from the fire, put coffee, stir and bring to the boil one more time. Let it brew and pour to the cup.

Italian Coffee

Ingredients

  • 100 ml of milk
  • 7g of coffee

Preparation

Rinse metallic coffee pot with a hot water. Put coffee with hot milk and bring to a boil. Take away from the fire and let brew.

The coffee history in Ethiopia

The sort of coffee-tree Coffea arabica came from Ethiopia (Abyssinia), namely from the south-west part of Ethiopian Highlands, which is called Kafa. People used leaves and fruit of coffee-tree since ancient times, long before the Semite tribe on the Arabian Peninsula had known about this plant.

The discoverers of coffee weren’t the Arabs, but Ethiopians – the group of some nationalities (Amhara, Tigray-Tigrinya, Gurage…). The group has appeared in the first thousand B.C., when inhabitants from the Arabian Peninsula moved to present Ethiopia and mixed with Negroids – Cushitic and Nilotes.

Ethiopians pounded coffee-tree fruits, mix them with adipose and made from them dumplings as large as plums. Fats, which were mixed with nourishing coffee fruits and seeds protein, empowered people. Coffee was a marvelous pepper-upper. From the fruits juice the nomads made beverage, looked like wine, and from the leaves – drink, like tea.
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Coffee contents

coffee beansRaw coffee beans contain more than 2000 different substances like proteins, carbohydrates, fats and mineral salt. By roasting its chemistry is considerably changed.

The nutrition value of real coffee (100 g. of drink without sugar) is: proteins – 0,2 g., fats – 0,6 g., carbohydrates – 0,1 g., calcium – to 9 mg., phosphorus – 7 mg., and even iron – 2 mg.
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