Of Coffee y and the Art of preparing it. 119 



!ow price, especially in coimtries which have colonies where 

 the chraaie is proper for growing it, many public advantages 

 would be derived Irom ihe general introduction of it among 

 all classes of society. One most important advantage, 

 which, on a superficial view of the subject, is not very ob- 

 vious, would most probably be derived from it. As coffee 

 possesses, in a high degree, an exhilarating quality, it 

 would, in some measure, supply the place of spirituous 

 liquors among the lower classes of the people." 



Persons who may not find it convenient to use spirit 

 lamps and portable furnaces, may use these coffee-pots over 

 a common chimney fire, m which case the perforated hoops 

 are not necessary. 



" For very pv^or persons, who cannot afford to buy a 

 coffee-pot, I shall recommend a very simple contrivance, 

 by means of \\ hich coffee mav be made, and even in the 

 highest possible perfection. — I have often made use of this 

 contrivance in preparing my own breakfast, and 1 have not 

 found the coffee to be in the least inferior to that made in 

 the most costly and complicated machines. 



'* The whole of this apparatus consists of a coffee-cup, 

 which should hold about three quarters of a pint; and a 

 strainer, made of tin, which is suspended in it by its brim. 

 (See fig. 3.) This cofiee-cup should be cylioflrical, and, 

 when employed in making one gill of good strong coffee, 

 should be three inches in diameter within, and three inches 

 and a half deep. The lower part of the strainer is one inch 

 and ,a half in diameter, and one inch deep; and the upper 

 part of it two inches and nine-tenths in diameter^ and about 

 one inch and a half in depth. The water which is poured 

 on the ground coffee should be boiling hot; the cup and 

 the strainer having both been previously heated, by dipping 

 them into boiling water. 



*' When all the coffee has passed into the lower part of 

 the cup the strainer may be taken away, and the cup may 

 be covered with the cover of the strainer. I do not thmk 

 it possible to contrive a more simple apparatus ih.in this 

 for making coffee, nor one in which coffee can be made in 

 higher perfection. 



"That represented by figure 4, which is of a size pro- 

 per for making two cups of coffee, is equallv simple; and 

 as it may be made entirely of pottery, it would cost a mere 

 trifle, perhaps not more than a shilling. The cup, which 

 serves in two c.ii)acitics, first as a reservoir in makino; the 

 coffee, and then as a cup in drmking it, (and which, in a 

 11 4 family. 



