Perfect Coffees.Com Newsletter Issue #14
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March 1, 2005
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In This Issue
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=> Coffee Facts
=> Feature Article
=> Recipe Of The Month
=> Coffee Trivia
=> Our Sister Web Sites
=> Contact Us
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information
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Coffee Facts
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Do you toss your used coffee grounds in the trash? We found a few uses for them in ways you might not have thought of.
Mix coffee grounds with the soil in your garden and flower beds, and let them help enrich the soil.
Sprinkle coffee grounds around your garden to eliminate cutworms, ants, slugs and snails.
A mixture of coffee grounds and sugar fed to a potted plant and watered regularly, will revive houseplants that have turned yellow in winter.
To get rid of ants in the lawn, mix a pound of coffee grounds in 1 quart of hot water and pour this on anthills. Red ants, which make big hills, will require a big dousing.
Use grounds around the top of the soil in houseplant pots, or mix it with potting soil before planting and your plants will love it.
Use steeped grounds and a cotton swab to touch up furniture scratches.
To get rid of bad refrigerator smells, dry your grounds on a cookie sheet and place 1/2 cup in a small open bowl on each shelf.
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Feature Article
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Instant coffee was invented back in 1906 by George C. Washington. No relation to the father of our country.
George was an English chemist living in Guatemala and he drank a lot of coffee.
A powder buildup on the spout of his coffee pot sparked his curiosity and eventually led him to produce a dried coffee crystal much like we still have today.
Instant coffee is just regular brewed coffee with most of the water removed.
There is no chemical alteration involved and instant coffee is still pure coffee.
There are two methods used for producing instant coffee crystals.
The freeze drying method preserves the most coffee flavor but it's a more involved method.
With this method, the brewed coffee sits and the water evaporates naturally, leaving a concentrated coffee solution.
This concentrate is then frozen to -40 Celsius and the remaining water freezes into ice crystals.
A natural process similar to evaporation called sublimation is used to remove the ice and only the dry grains of coffee are left.
The second method of making instant coffee is called spray drying.
With the spray drying method the water is again allowed to evaporate, forming a coffee concentrate.
This concentrated coffee is sprayed from a high tower into a large chamber filled with hot air.
The remaining water evaporates when the droplets fall and the dry crystals of coffee fall to the bottom of the chamber.
A little more coffee flavor is lost with the spray drying method because the high temperatures effect the oils of the coffee.
Instant coffee is seldom drank much any more but used a lot to add coffee flavor to drinks and is added to recipes for cooking and baking.
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Recipe Of
The Month
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Ingredients:
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. grated lemon peel
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup milk
2 eggs slightly beaten
1 tsp. vanilla
2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries
Icing
1 cup powdered sugar
1/4 tsp. almond extract
3-5 tsp. milk
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 375°.
Grease a 13x9 inch pan.
In large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon peel.
Using pastry blender or fork, cut in butter.
Add milk, eggs and vanilla. Stir well.
Pour 3/4 batter into greased pan.
Top with blueberries.
Spoon remaining batter over blueberries.
Bake for 35 minutes.
Cool 30 minutes.
In small bowl, blend icing ingredients.
Drizzle over warm cake.
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Coffee Trivia
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Olympic athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine, about 5 cups of coffee, may be banned from the Olympic Games.
Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.
The first coffee advertisement was a handbill distributed in 1651.
In 1900, coffee was often delivered door-to-door in the United States, by horse-pulled wagons.
Coffee has been around for over 11 centuries and is currently the most widely consumed beverage in the world.
In 1670, Dorothy Jones of Boston was granted a license to sell coffee, and so became the first American coffee trader.
It was in 1530 that the first coffeehouse was opened in Damascus, Syria. Istanbul, Turkey opened its first coffeehouse in 1554.
In Hawaii coffee is harvested between November and April.
Coffee, along with beer and peanut butter, is on the national list of the ten most recognizable odors.
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