Six Cups Of Coffee Prepared for the Public Palate by the Best Authorities on Coffee Making

by Maria Parloa, Hester Martha Poole

This is a facsimile reprint of the original book by Hester M Poole, rebuilt using the latest technology. There are no poor, missing or blurred pages and all photographic images have been professionally restored. At Yokai Publishing we believe that by restoring this title to print it will live on for generations to come.

78 pages, Paperback

First published September 9, 2010

About the author

Maria Parloa was an author of books on cooking and housekeeping, the founder of two cooking schools, a noted lecturer on food topics, and an important early figure in the "domestic science" (later "home economics") movement. A culinary pioneer, she was arguably America's first celebrity cook, considered as "one of the innovative superstars of her field".

Reviews

[Steve]

The sections on proper coffee-making were repetitive, the history of the bean was speculative, and the advertisement at the end was ham-fisted. That said, the audiobook was good company on my drive home from work, and it's always interesting to learn about how people lived 150 years ago. And after all, what's life without coffee?

[Luca]

I think I learnt more about how much it must have sucked to be a housewife in the 1800s than about how to make coffee.

One thing I did take away is you can mix an egg with your coffee grounds to eliminate all the bitterness (though the resulting sludge is terrifying).

[Susan Molloy]

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As a nation, the American people want the best of everything, and intend to have that best. Furthermore, they are very properly and intelligently eager to turn it to the greatest advantage. But what avails the best raw material if it be not prepared in such a manner as to develop and secure its subtle, delicate, volatile and enlivening qualities? The very same ingredients may be injurious and depressing, or wholesome and exhilarating, according to the way in which they are treated.

Here is a book from 1887 that has six chapters by six different women on how to make that perfect pot of coffee. The book shows how little has changed with making good coffee; one big difference I noticed early on is the absence of those *bleh* flavored coffees that are so prevalent today.

Some of the coffee making tips presented is how to mix different kinds of coffees to make varying strengths, the addition of fish skin (!) to clarify the brew; the addition of egg white and eggshells to the grounds before brewing, how to roast coffee beans, and so much more! The e-book version I discovered on Project Gutenberg is illustrated and complete with advertisements.

Oh, how I long for these simpler times!

✧⋆˚₊˚⋆✧ Excerpt of note:

🔹 The six cups of coffee offered to the reader, by six of the foremost authorities regarding cooking, will bring a new and healthful stimulus to prepare that refreshing drink in a manner which shall leave nothing to be desired. They are not made from old grounds re-heated for the occasion, but are as fresh as the intelligence and the experience which have produced them.

📙Published in 1887.

જ⁀➴🟢The illustrated e-book version of Six Cups of Coffee can be found at Project Gutenberg.
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