Coffee Territory

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

Coffee “Serenade” Recipe

Ingredients

  • 125g of ground roasted coffee
  • ½l of boiled water
  • sugar to taste
  • cream
  • Preparation>
    Make Turkish coffee, cool it and serve in glasses with cream.

Coffee “Georgia Ginger” Recipe

Ingredients

6 portions:

  • 75 ml of strong coffee
  • a tin of peach syrup
  • 12 ml of fresh cream
  • 1,5 tablespoon of black sugar
  • 2 pinches of ground cinnamon
  • a pinch of ground ginger
  • orange peel

Preparation
Pour peach syrup into the single plate. Shake half of coffee and peaches during one minute. Shake whipped cream into the single dish.

Pour 25 ml of cold water into the pan, put there some sugar, cinnamon, ginger and peach syrup. Bring to a boil and leave on the fire for a minute. Add peach puree and rest of the coffee, then mix whole mass.

Serve with whipped cream and orange peel.

Coffee “Olla”

Coffee Olla recipe
Ingredients

4 portions:

  • 9 tablespoons of dark roasted coffee
  • 150gr. of brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of treacle
  • one stick of cinnamon
  • anise

Preparation

Pour water into the pot, add sugar, treacle, cinnamon, and anise and carefully bring to a boil. Stir everything to make sugar and treacle completely dissolved. When mixture begins to boil, pour dry coffee, take away from the fire, cover with a lid and leave for 5 minutes.

Pour beverage into the delftware and serve straight away. Add some anise seeds.

Coffee “Tihanyi”

Ingredients

  • 8 teaspoons of ground coffee
  • ¼ liter of cold milk
  • 400ml. of boiled water
  • cream
  • sugar

Preparation

Make strong black coffee, strain at your desire, cool and add cold milk.

Stir up finished mixture, pour into the glasses, put whipped cream and serve.

Coffee and heart health

caffeine and heartThe negative effect of coffee on the heart depends on the genetic features.

Such conclusion has drawn international team of scientists from the University of Toronto, Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Costa Rica, after research with 4,028 Costa Ricans. Caffeine, which is a part of coffee, is transformed by means of liver enzyme cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP 1A2). Depending on the version of a gene, which controls the work of these enzymes, the splitting of caffeine by different people can be faster and slower. Read the rest »

Normandy coffee

normandy coffee recipe

Ingredients
4 portions:

  • 50 ml of strong coffee
  • 50 ml of apple juice
  • 2 tablespoons of brown sugar
  • a pinch of mixture of 5 seasonings
  • a pinch of ground cloves
  • 2 sticks of vanilla
  • 3 oranges
  • a stick of cinnamon

Preparation
Put all ingredients to one pan and bring to a boil on the middle fire, then weaken the fire and leave for 10 minutes.

Pour mixture into the previously heated jug, then pour into cappuccino-cups and add in each cup a stick of vanilla.

Coffee «In the Bahamas Islands»

Coffee «In the Bahamas Islands» recipe
Ingredients

  • a cup of cold strong coffee
  • a half glass of pineapple juice
  • one ice-cream scoop
  • some pieces of pineapple

Preparation
Mix coffee with pineapple juice and pour this mixture over the ice-cream scoop in the beaker or in the high glass.

Decorate with pineapple pieces, add straw or spoon with a long shank.

Mediterranean Coffee

Mediterranean Coffee recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons of graham coffee
  • 2 teaspoons of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon of cocoa
  • 1 teaspoon of anise seeds
  • a pinch of dry orange peel

Preparation
Mix all ingredients and make coffee everyhow.

The special recipe provides the usage of French press.

Cafe de Olla

Cafe de Olla coffee recipeIngredients

  • a bar of semisweet chocolate
  • 4 oz of brown sugar
  • 4 oz of ground coffee
  • 2 sticks of cinnamon
  • 3 pieces of cloves
  • 8 cups of water

Preparation
Boil water in the Turkish coffee pot, and then add pieces of cloves, cinnamon, sugar and chocolate.

When the mixture begins to boil, take foam away. Turn the gas low and add coffee.

Let the beverage draw for 5 minutes before serving.

Men wake up quicker from coffee than women

a strong cup of coffee has different effects on men and womenAccording to BBC-News, a strong cup of coffee has different effects on men and women, research shows.

The scientists of The University of Barcelona have performed a research with 668 healthy volunteers. At first they were asked to drink coffee with caffeine and then without it. A cup of espresso, which was taken at the beginning, had a restorative effect already in 10 minutes.

By that, in order to reach maximum caffeine concentration in the blood, human’s body needs 45 minutes, but half of participants got concentration after just a few minutes.

The decaf coffee had a similar effect (exactly which contains 5mg of this substance). In both cases, researches have marked the most rapid effect achievement by men than by the weaker sex.
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