Coffee Territory

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

Coffee «O-Lay»

Ingredients

  • 2 ¼ cups of cold coffee
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 2 cups of ice

Preparation

Mix all ingredients and froth the mixture. Serve with ice.

Coffee with honey

Coffee with honey

Ingredients

  • 15g of natural coffee
  • a half of lemon
  • 125 ml of water
  • 10g of honey

Preparation

Make black coffee. Strain, then stir liquid with lemon juice and honey. Pour out into the heated cups and dish up.

African coffee

African coffee
Ingredients

  • 250 ml of cold and strong black coffee
  • 40 ml of condensed evaporated milk
  • 20 ml of chocolate liqueur

Preparation

Mix coffee, evaporated milk and liqueur in the shaker. Stir them carefully. Put in the glass some pieces of ice and pour out finished mixture.

Who is barista?

BaristaWho is barista? Probably many of you have asked yourselves this question. Even if it becomes clearly what does barista do, the origin of word is still a riddle.

If you look into the dictionary, it will be easily to determine that the word has Italian origin. In Italy (and not only here) barista resembles a barman only vaguely. But there, it raises to the profession – it is a person who is working with coffee with competence.

As a rule, the Italians start taking an interest in coffee since early childhood. The real connoisseurs of this drink are studying its history, harvesting methods, as well as they roast on their own. They also compose their own mixtures and make coffee. With time this business gets family, and it is appeared coffee clans which become famous to the whole world.
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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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