646 Of the Excellent Qualities of Coffee. 



for making either one^ two, three, four, five, or six cups 

 of coffee. 



All the coffee-pots that have been made of this size 

 have been furnished with these two additional strainers ; 

 but they were omitted in the figure, in order to render 

 it more simple and more easy to be understood. 



Most of the coffee-pots of this size (Fig. i) have had 

 their boilers made sufficiently capacious for heating the 

 water necessary for making the coffee, as well as that 

 which is required for generating the steam which is 

 employed for keeping the reservoir boiling hot. 



This may be done in all cases ; but when this method 

 is employed it will be necessary that the boiler should 

 be furnished with a brass cock, placed about one quar- 

 ter of an inch above the level of its bottom, in order 

 that the boiling water necessary for pouring on the 

 ground coffee in the strainer may be drawn off, with- 

 out removing the boiler from the fire. By placing this 

 brass cock immediately under the handle of the coffee- 

 pot, it may be so united to it as almost to escape obser- 

 vation. I have a coffee-pot of this kind, in which the 

 brass cock by which the boiling water is drawn off is 

 entirely concealed in the ornaments of the handle. 



I have another in which the boiling water is poured 

 out by means of a second spout placed just opposite to 

 that by which the coffee is poured out ; but in using this 

 coffee-pot it is indispensably necessary to pour out at 

 once all the boiling water that is wanted, and before 

 any water has been put into the strainer. 



When coffee-pots are made with two spouts, one for 

 the water and the other for the coffee, the handle must 

 be placed between them and at equal distances from 

 each of them. 



