Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, We don't drink coffee with chicory, though many do as it is cheaper that way, just a 50:50 mix of Plantation and Peaberry. Both are berries of the Arabica plant, but the former has both beans stuck together, and the latter is a single bean. Both are roasted separately, Peaberry for flavour, and Plantation more deeply for strength, and then ground together, medium fine for our coffee filters, by bean weight to achieve the blend. Our final coffee, after letting gravity do its work, commonly called "decoction" is about 2-3 times stronger than espresso, so it is impossible to drink it without milk or cream, and normally sugar as well, though I do not - other stuff you can use to dilute it are butter, ghee, almond milk, coconut oil, coconut milk, etc - all the funny stuff ends up with it being called bulletproof coffee, and used by those on various diets - vegan and keto, to name two. We have a local retailer who does the roasting and grinding and delivers half a kilo of the finished product every week - there are thousands of shops doing this in Chennai alone, as fresh brewed coffee is very serious business in our South Indian culture. In my grandparents houses, the beans would be roasted and hand ground daily, and had a much better flavour, but these are modern times.... Our coffee is grown in South India, and is consumed 100% domestically, so is not so well known worldwide. We grow Robusta as well, but all of that goes straight into making instant coffee. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 7:26 PM Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > Jayanand, > > I also drink coffee mixed with chicory, but mine comes from the Cajun > country of southern Louisiana. I'm not certain where the beans are > grown. It provides a great way to start the morning. But, I don't spoil > it with milk. > > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > On 9/23/2019 2:24 AM, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote: > > This is what we drink - coffee brewed with the sole help of gravity. I > personally use cream instead of milk because of my keto diet: > > > > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_filter_coffee > > > > The tumbler and davarah essential for the proper taste and temperature > can also be seen there > > > > Cheers > > Jayanand > > > > > > Sent from my iPad > > > >> On 23-Sep-2019, at 12:42, Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > >> wrote: > >> > >> You both surprise me about coffee. Unless what we each call coffee are > different beverages ;-) > >> > >> Amities > >> > >> Philippe > >> > >> > >> > >>> Le 23 sept. 2019 ? 05:24, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG < > lug at leica-users.org> a ?crit : > >>> > >>> Douglas, > >>> I disagree. Coffee is best drunk from a thick walled stainless steel > >>> tumbler. You might well be right about tea! :-) > >>> Cheers > >>> Jayanand > >>> > >>>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:22 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> Yes indeed Jim, my grandmother served me apple tart on willow pattern. > >>>> She couldn't do peach as they don't grow very well over here at 53 > >>>> degrees north. > >>>> As for the tea cup, you can't beat drinking tea or coffee from fine > bone > >>>> china. > >>>> > >>>> Douglas > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> On 22/09/2019 19:34, Jim Nichols wrote: > >>>>> Taking a break from my library book, I looked around for a suitable > >>>>> subject for a photo exercise. The most suitable were found in my > late > >>>>> wife's china cabinet. Here are a couple from her diverse collection. > >>>>> > >>>>> The first is important to no one but myself. It is a single piece of > >>>>> English China in one of the many Blue Willow patterns, and it was the > >>>>> plate on which my Mother served me my piece of pie, usually peach, > >>>>> because we had peach trees, during the depression years of my > >>>>> childhood, in the 1930s. > >>>>> > >>>>> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220193.JPG.html > >>>>> > >>>>> The second is one of about a dozen English tea cups and saucers in > >>>>> assorted patterns that my wife inherited from her Grandmother. These > >>>>> apparently made their way to Mississippi after a visit to her > Canadian > >>>>> family members, and have been jealously guarded ever since. > >>>>> > >>>>> > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220197.JPG.html > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Leica Users Group. > >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Leica Users Group. > >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information