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TURKISH COFFEE RECIPES
Turkish coffee with Milk
Recipe for Two persons
- Add 3 oz of water and 3 oz of milk into your coffee maker
- Add 2-3 tablespoons Turkish coffee
- Add sugar to your taste
- Have the mixture come to a frothing (NOT boiling please)
- Move your coffee away from the heat (or turn down the heat) to let foam subside
- Have it come to froth again
- Serve into your cups
- Wait about 30-45 seconds to let grounds settle and enjoy.
- Stop drinking when you reach to the “sediments” in the bottom
- Now sit back and relax and enjoy your sensation!
Turkish coffee with Cocoa
Recipe for Two persons
- Add 6 oz of water
- Add 1 ½ or 2 tablespoons of Turkish coffee and ½ to 1 table spoons of cocoa
- Add sugar to your taste
- Have the mixture come to a frothing (NOT boiling please)
- Move your coffee away from the heat (or turn down the heat) to let foam subside
- Have it come to froth again
- Serve into your cups
- Wait about 30-45 seconds to let grounds settle and enjoy.
- Stop drinking when you reach to the “sediments” in the bottom
- Now sit back, relax and enjoy your sensation!
Turkish coffee with Chocolate Syrup
Recipe for Two persons
- Add 6 oz of water
- Add 1 ½ or 2 tablespoons of Turkish coffee and ½ to 1 table spoons of Chocolate syrup
- Do not add sugar.
- Have the mixture come to a frothing (NOT boiling please)
- Move your coffee away from the heat (or turn down the heat) to let foam subside
- Have it come to froth again
- Serve into your cups
- Wait about 30-45 seconds to let grounds settle and enjoy.
- Stop drinking when you reach to the “sediments” in the bottom
- Now sit back, relax and enjoy your sensation!
Turkish coffee with Vanilla or Almond extract
Recipe for Two persons
- Add 6 oz of water
- Add 2-3 tablespoons of Turkish coffee and 2-3 drops of vanilla or almond extract
- Add sugar to taste
- Have the mixture come to a frothing (NOT boiling please)
- Move your coffee away from the heat (or turn down the heat) to let foam subside
- Have it come to froth again
- Serve into your cups
- Wait about 30-45 seconds to let grounds settle and enjoy.
- Stop drinking when you reach to the “sediments” in the bottom
- Now sit back, relax and enjoy your sensation!
Sweet and Spicy Turkish coffee
Recipe for Two people
- 2 cardamom pods
- 1 inch of cinnamon quill (cinnamon bark)
- 2 teaspoons of vanilla sugar
- 3 teaspoons finely ground Turkish coffee
- 2 demitasse cups of water
To make vanilla sugar take 1 cup of
sugar and add 1 vanilla bean pod, blend until the vanilla is mixed. Crush
the cardamom pods and break up the cinnamon quill. Note that
there is a distinct taste difference to quilled rather than ground
cinnamon and additionally ground cinnamon adds an unfortunate
texture to the coffee; spend the extra money on the quills for best
results.Add the coffee, vanilla sugar, cardamom and cinnamon to your coffee pot and then the water. - Have the mixture come to a frothing (NOT boiling please)
- Move your coffee away from the heat (or turn down the heat) to let foam subside
- Have it come to froth again
- Serve into your cups
- Wait about 30-45 seconds to let grounds settle and enjoy.
- Stop drinking when you reach to the “sediments” in the bottom
- Now sit back, relax and enjoy your sensation!
     
- There
are about 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar, while
a cup of coffee contains around 100 to 150 milligrams.
- Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the United States.
- Regular
coffee drinkers have about one-third less asthma symptoms than those
non-coffee drinkers based on Harvard researcher who studied 20,000
people.
- A
scientific report form the University of California found that the
steam rising from a cup of coffee contains the same amounts of
antioxidants as three oranges. The antioxidants are heterocyclic
compounds which prevents cancer and heart disease. It's good for you!
- Special
studies conducted about the human body revealed it will usually absorb
up to about 300 milligrams of caffeine at a given time. About 4 normal
cups. Additional amounts are just cast off, providing no further
stimulation. Also, the human body dissipates 20% of the caffeine in the
system each hour.
- The
word "tip" dates back to the old London coffeehouses. Conspicuously
placed brass boxes etched with the inscription, "To Insure Promptness,"
encouraged customers to pay for efficient service. The resulting
acronym, TIP, has become a byword.
- Lloyd's of London began as Edward Lloyd's Coffeehouse.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- Beethoven,
who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he
always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.
- Until the late 1800's, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top frying pans were favored.
- The
heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the "Boston
Tea Party," resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking
coffee was an expression of freedom.
- In early America, coffee was usually taken between meals and after dinner.
- In 1900, coffee was often delivered door-to-door in the United States, by horse-pulled wagons.
- By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
- In
1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and
so became the first American coffee trader.
- Coffee Recipe from: 'Kitchen Directory and American Housewife' (1844)
"Use a tablespoonful ground to a pint of boiling water [less than a
quarter of what we would use today]. Boil in tin pot twenty to
twenty-five minutes. If boiled longer it will not taste fresh and
lively. Let stand four or five minutes to settle, pour off grounds
into a coffee pot or urn. - Dark
roasted coffees actually have less caffeine than medium roasts. The
longer a coffee is roasted, the more caffeine burns off during the
process.
- When a coffee seed is planted, it takes five years to yield consumable fruit.
- Turks
began to roast and grind the coffee bean in the 14th Century, and some
300 years later, in the 1600's, the country had become the chief
distributor of coffee, with markets established around the world.
- Raw coffee beans, soaked in water and spices, are chewed like candy in many parts of Africa.
- Milk
as an additive to coffee became popular in the 1680's, when a French
physician recommended that cafe au lait be used for medicinal purposes.
- Latte is the Italian word for milk. So if you request a latte' in Italy, you'll be served a glass of milk.
- Coffee
was first known in Europe as Arabian wine. The word “coffee” comes from
the Arabic “kahwa” which means wine.
- Jamaica Blue Mountain is often regarded as the best coffee in the world.
- Japan ranks Number 3 in the world for coffee consumption.
- Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a six fold increase since 1940.
- In
the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man
failed to keep his family's pot filled with coffee.
- Scandinavia
has the world's highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4
pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.
- The
United States is the world's largest consumer of coffee, importing 16
to 20 million bags annually (2.5 million pounds), representing
one-third of all coffee exported. More than half of the United States
population consumes coffee (52%) The typical coffee drinker has 3.4
cups of coffee per day. That translates into more than 450,000,000 cups
of coffee daily.
- An
acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee
cherries. That amounts to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after
hulling or milling.
- Advertisements for coffee in London in 1657 claimed that the beverage was a cure for scurvy, gout and other ills.
- After
the decaffeinating process, processing companies no longer throw the
caffeine away; they sell it to pharmaceutical companies.
- After
they are roasted, and when the coffee beans begin to cool, they release
about 700 chemical substances that make up the vaporizing aromas.
- An Arabica coffee tree can produce up to 12 pounds of coffee a year, depending on soil and climate.
- Before
roasting, some green coffee beans are stored for years, and experts
believe that certain beans improve with age, when stored properly.
- Before
the first French cafe in the late 1700's, coffee was sold by street
vendors in Europe, in the Arab fashion. The Arabs were the forerunners
of the sidewalk espresso carts of today.
- Brazil accounts for almost 1/3 of the world's coffee production, producing over 3.3 billion pounds of coffee each year.
- Caffeine
is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited
substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of
caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games.
This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
- Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
- Coffee
as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in
England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee
and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments
for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
- Coffee
beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected
by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and
degree of ripeness when picked.
- Coffee
is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted,
the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty
minutes.
- Coffee
is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species)
Quality of the preparation and Size of bean.
- Coffee is grown commercially in over forty-five countries throughout the world.
- Coffee lends its popularity to the fact that just about all flavors mix well with it.
- Coffee
sacks are usually made of hemp and weigh approximately 132 pounds when
they are full of green coffee beans. It takes over 600,000 beans to
fill a coffee sack.
- Coffee
trees are evergreen and grow to heights above 15 feet but are normally
pruned to around 8 feet in order to facilitate harvesting.
- Coffee trees are self-pollinating
- Coffee
trees produce highly aromatic, short-lived flowers producing a scent
between jasmine and orange. These blossoms produce cranberry-sized
coffee cherries. It takes four to five years to yield a commercial
harvest.
- Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the "ten most recognizable odors."
- Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
- Commercially
flavored coffee beans are flavored after they are roasted and partially
cooled to around 100 degrees. Then the flavors applied, when the coffee
beans' pores are open and therefore more receptive to flavor
absorption.
- During
the American Civil War the Union soldiers were issued eight pounds of
ground roasted coffee as part of their personal ration of one hundred
pounds of food. And they had another choice: ten pounds of green coffee
beans.
- During World War II the U.S. government used 260 million pounds of instant coffee.
- Finely
grinding coffee beans and boiling them in water is still known as
"Turkish Coffee." It is still made this way today in Turkey and Greece
or anywhere else Turkish Coffee is served.
- Flavored
coffees are created after the roasting process by applying flavored
oils specially created to use on coffee beans.
- Frederick the great had his coffee made with champagne and a bit of mustard.
- Hard Bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.
- Hawaii
is the only state of the United States in which coffee is commercially
grown. Hawaii features an annual Kona Festival, coffee picking contest.
Each year the winner becomes a state celebrity. In Hawaii coffee is
harvested between November and April.
- Hills Brothers Ground Vacuum Packed Coffee was first introduced in 1900.
- Iced coffee in a can has been popular in Japan since 1945.
- If
you like your espresso coffee sweet, you should use granulated sugar,
which dissolves more quickly, rather than sugar cubes; white sugar
rather than brown sugar or candy; and real sugar rather than sweeteners
which alter the taste of the coffee.
- In
1727, as a result of seedlings smuggled from Paris, coffee plants first
were cultivated in Brazil. Brazil is presently by far the world's
largest producer of coffee.
- In 1990, over 4 billion dollars of coffee was imported into the United States.
- In Italy, espresso is considered so essential to daily life that the price is regulated by the government.
- In Japan, coffee shops are called Kissaten.
- In
Sumatra, workers on coffee plantations gather the world's most
expensive coffee by following a gourmet marsupial who consumes only the
choicest coffee beans. By picking through what he excretes, they obtain
the world's most expensive coffee -'Kopi Luwak', which sells for over
$100 per pound.
- In
the 14th century, the Arabs started to cultivate coffee plants. The
first commercially grown and harvested coffee originated in the Arabian
Peninsula near the port of Mocha.
- In the last three centuries, 90% of all people living in the Western world have switched from tea to coffee.
- In the year 1763, there were over 200 coffee shops in Venice.
- In
the year 1790, there were two firsts in the United States; the first
wholesale coffee roasting company, and the first newspaper
advertisement featuring coffee.
- Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.
- It was during the 1600's that the first coffee mill made its debut in London.
- Italians do not drink espresso during meals. It is considered to be a separate event and is given its own time.
- Italy now has over 200,000 coffee bars, and still growing.
- Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.
- Modern coffee brewing methods use approximately 200° water.
- October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.
- Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.
- Over
10,000 coffee cafes plus several thousand vending machines with both
hot and cold coffee serve the needs of Tokyo alone.
- Over
5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of
those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3
billion coffee plants.
- Over
53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the
equator between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
- Over-roasted coffee beans are very flammable during the roasting process.
- Retail
espresso vendors report an increase in decaffeinated sales in the month
of January due to New Year's resolutions to decrease caffeine intake.
- Roasted
coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks.
Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and
espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.
- The
2,000 Arabica coffee cherries it takes to make a roasted pound of
coffee are normally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry
contains two beans, it takes about 4,000 Arabica beans to make a pound
of roasted coffee.
- The
Arabica is the original coffee plant. It still grows wild in Ethiopia.
The arabica coffee tree is an evergreen and in the wild will grow to a
height between 14 and 20 feet.
- The Arabs are generally believed to be the first to brew coffee.
- The
aroma and flavor derived from coffee is a result of the little beads of
the oily substance called coffee essence, coffeol, or coffee oil. This
is not an actual oil since it dissolves in water.
- The average age of an Italian barista is 48 years old. A barista is a respected job title in Italy.
- The average annual coffee consumption of the American adult is 26.7 gallons, or over 400 cups.
- The
average cup of coffee contains more than 1000 different chemical
components, none of which is tasted in isolation but only as part of
the overall flavor.
- The
Civil War in the United States elevated the popularity of coffee to new
heights. Soldiers went to war with coffee beans as a primary ration.
- The
coffee filter was invented in 1908 by a German homemaker, Melitta Benz,
when she lined a tin cup with blotter paper to filter the coffee
grinds.
- The
coffee tree produces its first full crop when it is about 5 years old.
Thereafter it produces consistently for 15 or 20 years.
- The drip pot was invented by a Frenchman around 1800.
- The Europeans first added chocolate to their coffee in the 1600's.
- The first coffee drinkers, the Arabs, flavored their coffee with spices during the brewing process.
- The first commercial espresso machine was manufactured in Italy in 1906.
- The first Parisian cafe opened in 1689 to serve coffee.
- The French philosopher, Voltaire, reportedly drank fifty cups of coffee a day.
- The largest coffee importer center in the U.S. is located in the city of New Orleans, LA.
- The
most widely accepted legend associated to the discovery of coffee is of
the goatherder named Kaldi of Ethiopia. Around the year 800-850 A.D.,
Kaldi was amazed as he noticed his goats behaving in a frisky manner
after eating the leaves and berries of a coffee shrub. And, of course,
he had to try them!
- The vast majority of coffee available to consumers are blends of different beans.
- The
word 'cappuccino' is the result of several derivations, the original of
which began in 16th century. The Capuchin order of friars, established
after 1525, played an important role in bringing Catholicism back to
Reformation Europe. Its Italian name came from the long, pointed cowl,
or cappuccino, derived from cappuccino, "hood," that was worn as part
of the order's habit. The French version of cappuccino was capuchin,
from which came English Capuchin. In Italian cappuccino went on to
describe espresso coffee mixed or topped with steamed milk or cream, so
called because the color of the coffee resembled the color of the habit
of a Capuchin friar. The first use of cappuccino in English is recorded
in 1948 in a work about San Francisco. There is also the story line
that says that the term comes from the fact that the coffee is dark,
like the monk's robe, and the cap is likened to the color of the monk's
head.
- Those
British are sophisticated people, in almost everything except their
choice of coffee. They still drink instant ten-to-one over fresh
brewed.
- William Penn purchased a pound of coffee in New York in 1683 for $4.68.
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