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

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» Coffee: time for gathering

Coffee growing is quite labour-intensive process. The coffee tree is blooming during several months, that is why coffee cherries are ripened in different time. The harvest is protracted for a long time and each tree should be worked up more than once.
The season of coffee harvest in each country is different. For example, in [...]

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» Instant coffee – to drink or not to drink?

You should show mettle in order to make coffee from coffee beans. If you want to have instant coffee, you will only need powder, a cup and boiling water. A lot of coffee-achievers are ready to sacrifice to wonderful taste and use doubtful cocktail from aromatizers with caffeine.
Three views of instant coffee
The instant coffee has [...]

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» Coffee traditions

Each country has its special secrets and traditions of coffee making.
People in South India like to drink coffee with a great number of milk and sugar. It helps to soften very spicy and hot food.
The Sudanese add some cloves or other spices and serve coffee in the jug.
In Turkey they use the rest [...]

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» Coffee tips

It turns out that coffee is not only for reading its grounds. It gives a polish to produces made from dark leather. For that you can wrap moist grounds into the woolen rag and wipe leather’s surface.

If you make coffee with strong drinks and you would like to decrease its proof, you can bring a [...]

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» Coffee with cream and ice-cream

Ingredients

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.

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» Coffee on your window-sill

If 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 [...]

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» Types of coffee packages

Coffee 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 [...]

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» Coffee in beans

Unfortunately, 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 [...]

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» Coffee contents

Raw 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 – [...]

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» Coffee with vermouth

Ingredients
For two portions:

120 ml of red vermouth
60 ml of cold and very strong coffee
coffee beans for decoration
10 ml of granulated sugar
30 ml of ice
250 ml of milk

Preparation
Mix all ingredients in shaker, stirring it energetically and for a long time. As soon as cocktail be ready, pour out it straight [...]

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