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The manner of making the Cafe a la Sultane is this. They 
‘ take the Husks of perfedly ripe Fruit, beat them, and put 
^ them into an Earthen Pan over a Charcoal -Fire, keeping 
‘ them conEantly in motion, and. only toafl: them till they change 
Colour a little. At the fame time Water is fet to boil in a 
^ Coffee-Pot, and when the Husks are ready, they throw in 
^ both the outer and inner Shells feparately, about three times 
^ as many of the fiifl as of the lafl: • then boil them up in the 
* fame manner as common Coffee. The Colour of the Liquor 
‘ is pretty much like that of the befl EngUp Beer. The Husks 
^ muff be kept in dry Places till they are ufed *, for the leafl 
^ Moifture fpoils the Tafle of them.’ 
Concerning the Cufloms and Ceremonies obferv’d by the 
Eaflern Nations, all the antient Travellers have informed us very 
particularly ; but in the later Books of Voyages, that is, thofc 
written fince Coffee became very common in Europe, we find 
but little upon that Subjed: ; the Reafon of which is plain ; be- 
caufe, as we have borrow’d the Ufe of this Liquor from the Lf- 
^a?it, and as it was firfl introduced by People who had liv’d 
long there, it was very natural to fuppofe, that their manner of 
ufing it fhould accompany die ufe itfelf. This will in mofl 
things be found to hold, however there are fome Particulars in 
which they differ from us : Whether this be owing to the Genius 
of the Eaflern People, or to fome other Caufe 1 fhall not now 
inquire. 
In the firfl place then, this Cuflom of drinking Coffee is fb 
univerfal all over the Eafl, that, bating the Attempts made 
againfl it by the Priefls and Phyficians at its firfl Eflablifliment, 
I cannot find fo much as one Inflance in all the Books of 
Travels I have confulted, that there is any one Rank of Peo- 
ple there, or fo much as one Perfbn of any Rank, who does 
not drink it : And we are affur’d, by no lefs a Man than 
M. The^enot, that in many Places of the Levant where he had 
been, one thing flipulated by all the Marriage-Contrads, was, 
that the Elusband fliould allow his Wife as much Coffee, and as 
often as flie had a mind. The ordinary Times of drinking are 
in the Morning and Evening j but they never drink it falling 5 
from whence comes a Proverb, very common amongfl them, 
that rather than either not drink Coffee in a Morning, or drink 
it without eating, a Man ought to eat a Button of his Coat. 
Befides thefe regular Coffee-Meals, they continue tipling pf it 
all day long • for they never meet together, either for Conver- 
fation, Bufinefs, or in Vifits, but Coffee makes one effential 
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