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How about putting a little instant espresso into your heavy cream before whipping it up for a really bold boost of coffee?


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How about putting a little instant espresso into your heavy cream before whipping it up for a really bold boost of coffee?


  coffeefrapp.JPG (Size: 1.17 MB / Downloads: 0) ]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-288.html Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:59:14 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-288.html This recipe serves one. You can get pots to make more and serve more, just increase the recipe as needed.

Kahwa
Turkish Coffee

Ingredients:

1 very heaping teaspoon pulverized coffee
1 heaping teaspoon sugar, or less to taste
1 small coffee cup worth of water

Although it is more common to boil the water with the sugar alone first and then add the coffee, it is customary in some families to put the coffee, sugar and water in the kanaka or pot (a small saucepan can be used but its not as successful), and to bring them to a boil together. By a 'very heaping teaspoon' of coffee, it's meant in this case, so heaping that it is more than 2 teaspoons. A level teaspoon of sugar will make a 'medium' coffee.

Bring to a boil. When the froth begins to rise, remove from the heat, stir, and return to the heat until the froth rises again. Pour immediately into little cups, allowing a little froth (wesh) for each cup. The froth is forced out by making your hand 'tremble' as you serve. But if you are making a larger amount of coffee in a big kanaka, it's easier to distribute the froth equally between the cups with a spoon before pouring.

Serve very hot. The grounds will settle at the bottom of the cup. Do not stir them up or drink them!

In my family one of my dad's cousins used to read fortunes in the coffee grinds at the bottom of the cup. When you finished the coffee you would turn your cup upside down to allow the grinds to coat the cup. She would then read your fortune from the pattern of the grinds.

Variation:
Try flavoring the coffee with cardamom seeds (heil), or a little cinnamon, or a pinch of ground cloves, added at the same time as the coffee.
Or pour in a drop of orange blossom or rose water before serving.]]> This recipe serves one. You can get pots to make more and serve more, just increase the recipe as needed.

Kahwa
Turkish Coffee

Ingredients:

1 very heaping teaspoon pulverized coffee
1 heaping teaspoon sugar, or less to taste
1 small coffee cup worth of water

Although it is more common to boil the water with the sugar alone first and then add the coffee, it is customary in some families to put the coffee, sugar and water in the kanaka or pot (a small saucepan can be used but its not as successful), and to bring them to a boil together. By a 'very heaping teaspoon' of coffee, it's meant in this case, so heaping that it is more than 2 teaspoons. A level teaspoon of sugar will make a 'medium' coffee.

Bring to a boil. When the froth begins to rise, remove from the heat, stir, and return to the heat until the froth rises again. Pour immediately into little cups, allowing a little froth (wesh) for each cup. The froth is forced out by making your hand 'tremble' as you serve. But if you are making a larger amount of coffee in a big kanaka, it's easier to distribute the froth equally between the cups with a spoon before pouring.

Serve very hot. The grounds will settle at the bottom of the cup. Do not stir them up or drink them!

In my family one of my dad's cousins used to read fortunes in the coffee grinds at the bottom of the cup. When you finished the coffee you would turn your cup upside down to allow the grinds to coat the cup. She would then read your fortune from the pattern of the grinds.

Variation:
Try flavoring the coffee with cardamom seeds (heil), or a little cinnamon, or a pinch of ground cloves, added at the same time as the coffee.
Or pour in a drop of orange blossom or rose water before serving.]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-261.html Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:11:12 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-261.html

A hot drink of boiled scented water taken as an alternative to coffee at night is an old tradition in Syria and Lebanon.

Pour boiling water int a small coffee cup and add a few drops of orange blossom water. Sweeten with sugar or honey if you wish.

You can also do this with cold water. Just put a few drops of orange blossom water into cool water and sweeten if you wish.]]>

A hot drink of boiled scented water taken as an alternative to coffee at night is an old tradition in Syria and Lebanon.

Pour boiling water int a small coffee cup and add a few drops of orange blossom water. Sweeten with sugar or honey if you wish.

You can also do this with cold water. Just put a few drops of orange blossom water into cool water and sweeten if you wish.]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-205.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:54:24 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-205.html Yemen

Ginger Coffee

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 cups water
4 tablespoons pulverized coffee
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger

Place all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, then remove from the heat. Return to the heat again and bring to a second boil then repeat two more times (total 4 boils) then serve in demitasse cups.]]> Yemen

Ginger Coffee

Serves 4

Ingredients:

2 cups water
4 tablespoons pulverized coffee
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons ground ginger

Place all the ingredients in a pot and bring to a boil, then remove from the heat. Return to the heat again and bring to a second boil then repeat two more times (total 4 boils) then serve in demitasse cups.]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-206.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:50:56 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-206.html

Arabic Coffee Saudi Arabian Style

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup very coarsely ground partially roasted coffee
1 teaspoon pulverized cardamom seeds

Place the water in a coffee pot and bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and add the coffee. Return to the heat and brew over medium heat for 10 minutes then remove and pour slowly into a serving coffee pot (ibreeq) making sure the grounds remain in the first pot.
Add the cardamom and boil for 3 minutes just before serving.]]>

Arabic Coffee Saudi Arabian Style

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups water
1/4 cup very coarsely ground partially roasted coffee
1 teaspoon pulverized cardamom seeds

Place the water in a coffee pot and bring to a boil, then remove from the heat and add the coffee. Return to the heat and brew over medium heat for 10 minutes then remove and pour slowly into a serving coffee pot (ibreeq) making sure the grounds remain in the first pot.
Add the cardamom and boil for 3 minutes just before serving.]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-207.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:47:46 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-207.html Arabic Coffee Kuwaiti Style

Ingredients:

2 cups water
4 heaping tablespoons very finely ground coffee
6 cardamom seeds, crushed

Place all the ingredients in a coffee pot, then bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes then fill about a third of each Arabic coffee cup at a time and serve.

Two more servings of coffee should be offered to each guest.]]> Arabic Coffee Kuwaiti Style

Ingredients:

2 cups water
4 heaping tablespoons very finely ground coffee
6 cardamom seeds, crushed

Place all the ingredients in a coffee pot, then bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low and simmer for 30 minutes then fill about a third of each Arabic coffee cup at a time and serve.

Two more servings of coffee should be offered to each guest.]]> https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-163.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:44:53 -0400 https://twitchinkitchen.com/thread-163.html

Coffee, which derives from the Arabic word qahwa, was introduced into Europe via Turkey from Arabia. The drinkinf of coffee is a very important activity in the Eastern Arab world. Men spend hours during the long summer evenings, and whenever they can during the day, sitting in cafes, sipping cups of coffee. The women drink coffee while visiting one another in thier homes.
Business and barganining in the marketplace never take place without drinking coffee. At home, it is served as soon as visitors arrive, always freshly brewed and usually with freshly roasted and pulverized coffee beans.
I can remember as a child when my father's side of the family gathered and after dinner the 'adults' would drink "Arabic Coffee" and one of my fathers cousins would read the fortunes in the grinds.
You would drink the coffee and turn the cup upside down letting the grinds run where they will, and you get your fortune told by the way the grinds look.

Arabic Coffee
Qahwa 'Arabiyya

serves 4

Ingredients:

4 heaping tablespoons pulverized coffee
2 tablespoons sugar
4 cups water
1 cardamom seed, crushed

Place the coffee, sugar and water in a pot and bring to a boil.
Then, when the froth begins to rise, remove from the heat and stir. Heat again until the froth rises, then remove from the heat and allow to settle for a fewminutes.
Add the crushed cardamom and stir. Then But a little froth into each cup, pour the coffee and serve hot.

Note: The sugar may be omitted if desired and the coffee can be seved bitter or with an artificial sweetner.

The above is made in a traditional Arabic or Turkish coffee pot and served in very small traditional cups.
If you don't have a source for pre-ground Turkish coffee, you can grind your own beans with a special grinder.

Coffee Grinder:
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Coffee Pot:
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Traditional coffee sets:
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Coffee, which derives from the Arabic word qahwa, was introduced into Europe via Turkey from Arabia. The drinkinf of coffee is a very important activity in the Eastern Arab world. Men spend hours during the long summer evenings, and whenever they can during the day, sitting in cafes, sipping cups of coffee. The women drink coffee while visiting one another in thier homes.
Business and barganining in the marketplace never take place without drinking coffee. At home, it is served as soon as visitors arrive, always freshly brewed and usually with freshly roasted and pulverized coffee beans.
I can remember as a child when my father's side of the family gathered and after dinner the 'adults' would drink "Arabic Coffee" and one of my fathers cousins would read the fortunes in the grinds.
You would drink the coffee and turn the cup upside down letting the grinds run where they will, and you get your fortune told by the way the grinds look.

Arabic Coffee
Qahwa 'Arabiyya

serves 4

Ingredients:

4 heaping tablespoons pulverized coffee
2 tablespoons sugar
4 cups water
1 cardamom seed, crushed

Place the coffee, sugar and water in a pot and bring to a boil.
Then, when the froth begins to rise, remove from the heat and stir. Heat again until the froth rises, then remove from the heat and allow to settle for a fewminutes.
Add the crushed cardamom and stir. Then But a little froth into each cup, pour the coffee and serve hot.

Note: The sugar may be omitted if desired and the coffee can be seved bitter or with an artificial sweetner.

The above is made in a traditional Arabic or Turkish coffee pot and served in very small traditional cups.
If you don't have a source for pre-ground Turkish coffee, you can grind your own beans with a special grinder.

Coffee Grinder:
  greek_grinder_small.jpg (Size: 7.35 KB / Downloads: 0)

Coffee Pot:
  brassibrikdecorative_thumb.jpg (Size: 9.2 KB / Downloads: 0)

Traditional coffee sets:
  turkish_coffee_set_brass_sm.jpg (Size: 14.16 KB / Downloads: 0)
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1) Have you ever burned the coffee in the bottom of the pot until it got like burnt charcoal? Ever freak out at this not knowing how to clean it?

Well simply let the pot cool down, toss in a few ice cubes and salt. Swish it all around and viola! LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED AT ALL!

Now once that is cleaned, the next step will finish it up nicely....

2) OXY- Clean your teapot, kettle, percolator or drip machines!

Simply put a tablespoon into the machine, fill with HOT and I mean HOT water and let sit. Put all the 'fittings' into a bowl or the pot itself if it fits as well. Leave this for half an hour. Scrub clean and you'll have a pot that looks BRAND NEW!

You can also do this with the water reservoir in the drip machines. Let stand alot longer though, and this takes more time as you need to run the machine and make hot Oxy-clean.
You need to keep making plain water until all the oxy-clean is out of your reservoir.
Plain white vinegar works as well too. Probably better as that is the only thing that takes out lime and calcium deposits.]]>
1) Have you ever burned the coffee in the bottom of the pot until it got like burnt charcoal? Ever freak out at this not knowing how to clean it?

Well simply let the pot cool down, toss in a few ice cubes and salt. Swish it all around and viola! LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED AT ALL!

Now once that is cleaned, the next step will finish it up nicely....

2) OXY- Clean your teapot, kettle, percolator or drip machines!

Simply put a tablespoon into the machine, fill with HOT and I mean HOT water and let sit. Put all the 'fittings' into a bowl or the pot itself if it fits as well. Leave this for half an hour. Scrub clean and you'll have a pot that looks BRAND NEW!

You can also do this with the water reservoir in the drip machines. Let stand alot longer though, and this takes more time as you need to run the machine and make hot Oxy-clean.
You need to keep making plain water until all the oxy-clean is out of your reservoir.
Plain white vinegar works as well too. Probably better as that is the only thing that takes out lime and calcium deposits.]]>