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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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» Ground coffee

One and a half milliards cups of coffee are drunk in the world every day. Bitter, foamy, coarse and mild, Arabica or Robusta. Real, ground.
Sowed by the angel, made by the herder
Coffee is one of the best beverages which are known for our civilization. Perhaps, the flourishing civilization itself is in many respects owed to [...]

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» Coffee like a medicine

A French novelist Honoré de Balzac. The portrait of L. Boulanger.

Coffee and creation
With admiration wrote about coffee Balzac in «Treatise about modern analeptics»:
«As soon as coffee gets stomach, at once appears excitement. Thoughts start moving like Great Army’s battalions on the battlefield. Instantly in a memory arise events quasi adapt with a wind.»
Coffee like a [...]

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» Aromatized coffee

The first gained popularity aromatized “latte” (coffee with milk).
The first idea of aromatized coffee appeared in the East. The Arabs, who were living on the territory of modern Yemen, added there different spices. They increased the taste and the flavor of the beverage. The supplements were cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, vanillin, etc.
Different supplements impart certain [...]

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» Some interesting facts about coffee

The first coffee houses were opened in Oxford, England, in 1650. One year later – in London. By 1700 there were already about 2000 coffee houses in the capital of Great Britain.
London coffee-houses of XVII century have become famous as «Penny Universities», because with a cup of coffee it was possible to speak to painters, [...]

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