Hi all, Thought you might like to hear a quaint story - Over the weekend I was telling my 82 year old mother about my coffee roasting ventures and she then told me about her grandmother in Dundee, Scotland who apparently used to roast her own coffee around about 1905 - 1914. This was doubly amazing for around those times very few people drank coffee in Scotland let alone roasted coffee, tea being the main drink apart from Whisky ofcourse but you know what I mean... They weren't sure where she got the green beans from but she roasted them in the wood fired oven , ground them with a pestle and mortar and brewed the coffee in an iron pot - this was told to my mother by her mother - and the coup de grace to settle the coffee grounds she used to drop a small red hot coal from the fire into the coffee pot before serving... See I knew I got it from somewhere.. Regards, David - Brisbane Australia Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://lists.sweetmariascoffee.com/listinfo.cgi/homeroast-sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures 9upload yours!) :http://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
David - That's so cool! It is certainly intriguing to hear that someone in Scotland back then roasted coffee. But I have a dear friend here who's from Ireland originally (she goes back often, has a house there) - when I told her that I roast my own coffee, stovetop, she said, "Oh, yes, that's what they all do back home..." Lynne On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 5:39 PM, David&Marilyn Sheldon wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://lists.sweetmariascoffee.com/listinfo.cgi/homeroast-sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures 9upload yours!) :http://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
David, Thanks for the story! Don't they use egg shells in cowboy coffee to settle the ground? A small coal, huh? Whouda thunk?? bill On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Lynne wrote: <Snip> Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://lists.sweetmariascoffee.com/listinfo.cgi/homeroast-sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures 9upload yours!) :http://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |
yes, or egg white On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 1:16 AM, Bill wrote: <Snip> -- "Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit." --W. Somerset Maugham Homeroast mailing list Homeroasthttp://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20">http://lists.sweetmariascoffee.com/listinfo.cgi/homeroast-sweetmariascoffee.comHomeroast community pictures 9upload yours!) :http://www.homeroasting.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemIdx20 |