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

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» Coffee with liqueur

Ingredients

2 teaspoons of freshly ground coffee
¼ glass of any liqueur (50 ml)
2 glasses of water
sugar

Preparation
Put coffee into the coffee-pot, add hot water, bring to a boil.
Pour out finished coffee into the cups, add liqueur. Serve sugar separately.

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» 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.

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» Coffee with cognac and liqueur

Ingredients

9g of coffee
20g of sugar
20 ml of brandy
ice
30 ml of liqueur
100 ml of water

Preparation
Make coffee with sugar, then cool it and put to the fridge for half an hour. Put into the glass some pieces of ice, brandy and liqueur and bring it to the same volume with chilled sweet coffee. Serve with a drinking [...]

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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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» Coffee with ice and spices

Ingredients
Four portions:

- 4 glasses of strong black coffee
- 4 tablespoons of coffee liqueur
- 4 cinnamon sticks
- 6 clove buds
- ice cubes
- sugar

Preparation
Pour out coffee into the big container. Add the cinnamon stick (or ground cinnamon), cloves and sugar for your taste. Mix carefully and leave at least for an hour, to make coffee brew.
Strain [...]

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» Coffee brulee

Ingredients
4-6 portions:

- orange peel
- lemon peel
- 4 tablespoons of orange liqueur
- 2 glasses of strong black coffee
- 6 clove buds
- 2 glasses of brandy
- cinnamon stick
- sugar

Preparation
Put orange and lemon peel into the frying pan. Add sugar, cinnamon, clove, brandy and orange liqueur. Warm until sugar is dissolved constantly stirring.
Make coffee, set on fire mixture [...]

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» Peculiarities of coffee etiquette

Coffee-time, as a tea-time is one of the most popular. Usually one can be invited to coffee at the end of the day, after 6 p.m. It is also severed at the end of the feast thereby stress the festival’s conclusion.
In order to leave a good impression by guests from the party, you should [...]

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