658 Of the Excellent Qualities of Coffee. 



apparatus than this for making coffee, nor one in which 

 coffee can be made in higher perfection. 



That represented by Fig. 7, Plate XIV., which is of 

 a size proper for making two cups of coffee, is equally 

 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 capacities, first as a 

 reservoir in making the coffee, and then as a cup in 

 drinking it (and which in a family may be used for 

 other purposes), is three inches and a half in diameter 

 internally and four inches deep. 



As many persons may prefer coffee-pots made en- 

 tirely of Staffordshire ware, porcelain, or other pottery, 

 to those made of the metals, not only on account of the 

 low prices at which they may be afforded, but also on 

 account of their superior neatness and cleanliness, I 

 have added the Fig. 8, Plate XV., which, on a scale of 

 half the full size, represents a coffee-pot made of pottery 

 of a size proper for making five or six cups of coffee at 

 once, or three, four, five, six, seven, or eight cups, if two 

 strainers are used, one after the other. 



When this coffee-pot is used, it will be necessary to 

 place it in boiling water to keep it hot; and it will 

 be useful to cover the whole with a cylindrical vessel 

 turned upside down, by which means both the strainer 

 and the coffee-pot will be surrounded by hot steam, 

 which will contribute very essentially to the goodness 

 of the coffee. 



As soon as the coffee has passed into the coffee-pot, 

 the strainer may be taken away, and the coffee-pot 

 covered with the cover which is common to it and 

 to the strainer. 



