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Mateu
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2002 - 05:00 pm: | 
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I fell in love with this stuff while living in Albania (also where my eyes witnessed the superiority of Land Rovers in action). Turkish coffee might sound a little scary at first, but I promise that it's not as sharp and bitter as espresso and tastes fantastic. It's naturally thick and creamy without any cream and it can be ritualistic for the initiated. It takes about five minutes to whip up two cups and gives you a quick booster in the morning or anytime.
You will need:
-Sterno burner or primus camp burner
-A long handled butter melter (I can email you a pic or look for it in a subsequent post).
-A medium roast coffee (not flavored, MUST BE ground finer than espresso coffee, almost like rough flour)
-Sugar
-Water
-2 espresso-size cups
1. In your butter melter, put in about a half tablespoon of coffee, about a teaspoon of sugar more or less (even if you don't care for sugar, it goes naturally with this coffee and, I believe, a must).
2. Top off with water.
3. Over a high flame on your burner, slowly stir the grounds and sugar around in the water.
4. Right when the water starts to boil up and almost over, it's ready. This will happen about 2 minutes after starting to heat.
5. Take it off the flame before it boils over. Have your two espresso cups ready. Pour 25% into one, 25% in the other, repeat until cups are full. You do this to distribute the froth created by the grounds.
6. DO NOT DRINK THE CUP ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM. IT CONTAINS ALL THE GROUNDS. This isn't a bad thing, really. Just leave them there.
Making this stuff takes a little practice, but I'd take it over anything Starbucks has ever concocted 365 days a year. It's very quick, very easy once you get the hang of it, even outdoors in the middle of noplace. And it tastes awesome any time of day. |
Michael Villanueva (Michael)
| | Posted on Friday, February 22, 2002 - 08:52 pm: |
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Yummers! As a coffee gourmet, I got to try this. Thanks for the post. So *how* do you get it ground the right way? Home grinders can only go so far before they heat the grounds up to toast.
How do you get that "rough flour" texture? |
Kevin Ta (Smalls)
| | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2002 - 12:12 am: |
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The old fashion way ..... a mortar and pestel! |
Michael Villanueva (Michael)
| | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2002 - 05:32 pm: |
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Old Fashioned?? No, that is pure barbarism; plus it is way too long and too hard a work for a cup of Joe. |
Mateu
| | Posted on Saturday, February 23, 2002 - 08:52 pm: |
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Actually, the old fashioned grinders are what they used in Albania. They would just put it through two or three times. Also, I believe that those grocery store grinders in the coffee aisle have a setting all the way to the end of the finer grinds titled "Turkish". I would run it through that twice. My little electric Braun grinds it up great. I just let it go for what seems too long and shake it up a bit while it's going. If you don't grind it fine, it won't stay on the bottom of the cup. I've had a few cups where grounds were waiting on the top to coat my tongue. You really just want it to be a step finer than espresso coffee. If you try it out, you'll find out what's not ground enough. When the grounds stay on the bottom like a little mud slick, it's right. It won't go into your mouth while you're enjoying the coffee.
Matt |
mateu
| | Posted on Sunday, March 03, 2002 - 04:03 pm: |
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Here is the picture of the butter melter we use for making Turkish coffee. The dollar bill is there so you can see the scale.
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AL
| | Posted on Thursday, March 07, 2002 - 07:30 pm: |
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If u ever find a middleastern grocery store ask for turkish coffee, its grounded and all u do is add water or milk. One teaspoon coffee and sugar for every doubleshot glass, You must stir the entire time until it boils, when finished sipping u must turn cup upside down and find a Middleatern women to tell u your fortune.
CHEERS
PS last part optionel,lol |
mateu
| | Posted on Monday, March 11, 2002 - 10:49 am: |
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Right on, Al. You know it. |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 05:24 am: |
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I'd rather have some Turkish apple tea... : ) |
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