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Perfect Coffees.Com Newsletter Issue #16

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May 1, 2005

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In This Issue
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=> Campfire Coffee Recipes
=> Feature Article
=> Recipe Of The Month
=> Coffee Trivia
=> Our Sister Web Sites
=> Contact Us
=> Subscribe/Unsubscribe information

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Campfire Coffee Recipes
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There are numerous ways and recipes for making coffee in a plain pot over a campfire. It's best to try a few varieties to see what suits your taste. Here are a few recipes to get you started so your coffee will taste good in the outdoors.

Traditional Campfire Coffee Recipes

Recipe 1.  Bring two quarts of water to a good, rolling boil in a pot. Take it from the fire and add 2 handfuls of fine ground coffee. Keep in mind that whoever makes the coffee will change the results of this traditional recipe. Steep for 4 minutes. The secret to good campfire coffee is add a few tablespoons of cold water to the mixture after steeping. This settles the grounds to the bottom. Then pour slowly to keep as many grounds out of your cup as possible.

Recipe 2.  Add 6 teaspoons of ground coffee into a pot, and pour 3 pints of cold water over the grounds. Put the pot on the fire and bring it to a boil. Take it off the heat and let steep for 3 minutes. Don't forget the secret. Add those few tablespoons of cold water to the mixture after steeping to settle the grounds. This makes about 6 cups of good campfire coffee.

Campfire Percolator Coffee

Recipe 3.  This is the most common method of making campfire coffee. Start with 1½ tablespoons of coarsely ground coffee for each 6 oz of water when using a percolator pot. Here is a trick if you end up with grounds in your coffee. Poke a hole in a regular coffee filter and put it in the perk basket. Watch the percolator for the coffee color. The longer it perks the stronger your coffee will be. Percolator pots take practice but make great campfire coffee.

Taste Tip

If you use unpleasant lake, well or tap water your coffee just won't ever taste very good. Coffee is 98% water so using good water will make all of difference in good or bad coffee. Bring good water with you and you will enjoy your campfire coffee a lot more.

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Feature Article
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Specialty Gourmet Coffee

Specialty gourmet coffee is a very hot commodity in today's market. The consumption of gourmet coffee has steadily grown and consumers seem to be enjoying the more sophisticated tastes of gourmet coffee beans.

Specialty gourmet coffee, sometimes called premium coffee, is exceptional coffee beans grown only in ideal coffee-producing climates. These coffee beans have unique characteristics because of the soil they grow in which produce very distinctive flavors.

Gourmet coffee has a more balanced flavor and richer taste than standard mass-produced coffee. Gourmet coffee beans go through a rigorous process of certification that is much stricter to help keep the quality high.

In the 1974 issue of the "Tea & Coffee Trade Journal", Erna Knutsen first used the term 'specialty coffee' to describe these unique coffee beans that are produced in special microclimates with these distinctive, exceptional flavors.

In 1982 the Specialty Coffee Association of America was created by coffee professionals to help set quality standards for the specialty coffee trade.

Since the 1990's the growing popularity of the coffee houses and specialty gourmet coffee retailers, have made gourmet coffee one of the fastest growing food services markets in the world. In the United States alone, it nets approximately $8.5 billion a year.

Some have compared specialty gourmet coffee to wine. The aromas and flavors have similarities in how the consumer connects with the two beverages. The characteristics of gourmet coffee however, are even more complex than wine. The coffee bean is more dependent on altitudes, climate and soil variation than with the grapes used for wine.

The history and tradition of the specialty coffee grower makes this a very complex beverage. So pour yourself a cup of your favorite specialty gourmet coffee, sit back and enjoy, you deserve it.

Our Specialty gourmet coffee selections are located at: Specialty Gourmet Coffee

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Recipe Of
The Month
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Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies

Ingredients:

4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
2 cups butter, softened
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups semisweet chocolate chips
2 cups chopped walnuts (optional)

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Sift together the flour and baking soda, set aside.

In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar.

Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla.

Blend in the flour mixture.

Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and nuts.

Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven.

Edges should be golden brown.

Yields 6 dozen cookies.

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Coffee Trivia
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Cheaper, lower quality Robusta coffee beans have up to twice as much caffeine content than Arabica beans.

Until the 18th century coffee was almost always boiled.

Sugar was first used to sweeten coffee in 1625.

In Hawaii, coffee is harvested between November and April.

Australians consume 60% more coffee than tea, a sixfold increase since 1940.

According to the speciality coffee association of America, the premium bean category of the industry has grown into a $1.5 billion annual industry.

Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.

In the future, genetically engineered coffee plants may produce coffee that is decaffeinated on the bush.

Coffee pickers in Hawaii are among the highest paid in the world.

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Our Other Web Sites
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We constantly write fresh articles in a variety of different subjects so you are better informed before you make your buying decision. The articles in this site are steadily growing into a large and informative database of valuable consumer information.

We know you have a lot of choices on the Internet and we thank you for visiting our web sites and for your business.

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