Now about coffee making. The first method recommended is the filtered or drip method. This supposed to get the best from the coffee. Housekeepers, however, do Vike their percolators and it is possible to make excellent coffee with their use. In making drip coffee the water must be freshly boiling and then poured over the coffee, which has been pulverized and which is in a container on the top of the pot and is allowed to drip slowly through. If you make this type of coffee be sure that your pot is hot. It may be set in a pan of hot water. The criticism directed against drip coffee is that it is not always hot That is, of course, the fault of the person who makes it.
We have changed our idea about the length of time necessary to per~ colate coffee. We used to think twenty minutes was the proper time. This has been cut down tw three or four minutes of quick ae tion. One of the companies which conducts content research into the best methods of coffee-making recommends ten minutes of slow percolating. Some experts us freshly boiling water and oth use cold water. I think that more persons are likely to make good coffee with cold water. It is les trouble to fill the pot with sparkling cold water from the faucet, to put the ground coffee in the strainer top, to start the percolator and to have it off your mind with one operation. Just a word about boiled coffee. It can be perfectly delicious, The exe is used to pull the grounds together so that the coffee will be clear. There is no magic in the us of egg shells, but there is an econ my as the whites which always cling to the. shell will thus be used. Boiled coffee without egg can also be delicious, as you have doubtless experienced' with picnic coffee, This is seldom allowed to overcook be-ensue the picnickers are usually waiting impatiently for the pot to boil, and what a wonderful flavour it hast—enhanced perhaps, by tha appetizing effect of the great out~ doors.
Those of you who have read this article will probably go on selecting your coffee and making it just as you always have done and will have a good product, if you always get well-packed coffee and if you make it with fresh water just before you-are going to serve it, Coffee demands this treatment. Also, you must keep your coffee pot clean. Empty the pot as soon as the meal is over. Do not let the coffee stand in it, Never allow any brown sediment to remain me side the pot. If you empty it quick you will have none to remo
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