Subj : Coffee [1] To : Dave Drum From : Ruth Haffly Date : Mon Jun 17 2024 12:09:21 Hi Dave, DD> It is an acquired taste. I started out drinking it w/cream & sugar as DD> my father did. Then I noticed that my hero (grandfather) took his DD> "mud" straight up. So, I switched and never looked back. RH> I never tried to develop a taste once I knew I didn't like it, even RH> with milk and sugar. DD> I sneaked up on it. With the C&S it was more to a kids taste. Like Most kids start drinking it that way. DD> soda or Kool-ade which I was more used to. Then I dropped the sugar DD> and the DD> milk/cream muted the bitterness of the coffee. Finally I just went to DD> straight up black coffee. That's the way my parents always drank it. For decades, only in the morning but also then occaisionally at night if they were eating out. DD> I also drink my tea (and iced tea) straight up. My grandmother used I used to put both milk and sugar in my hot tea, just sugar in ice tea. Cut out the milk long ago, switched to a sugar sub (stevia) quite a while ago for both hot and ice tea. to DD> serve tooth-achingly sweet iced tea - which I abhorred. I do, We adopted a descriptive phrase we heard on "Star Trek; The Next Generation" to desscribe something super sweet--Tooth Itching. DD> sometimes, in the cold months add a little honey to my cuppa. Never DD> sugar. We keep both honey and raw sugar on hand for sweetening, no white sugar in the house. The raw adds just a hint of a molasses taste. DD> I leaned a trick about instant coffee. If you make your cup of coffee DD> as normal - then put it in the microwave for a minute. It does DD> something to the flavour that makes it almost taste like brewed DD> coffee. RH> This was in the pre microwave days, had to heat the water on the stove. DD> Also pre-single serve coffee maker days. A Keurig would have made DD> things nice for your Pop. Yes, but they were later coming onto the scene than microwaves. DD> 8<----- SLICE ----->8 DD> My go-to watch/clock guy fell off his twig several years ago. But DD> there is a local (and thriving) clock company with a repair department DD> that I am told does good work. I'm all digital these days having given DD> my last (heirloom) clock to my brother and sister-in-law. A pixture of DD> one just like it is here https://tinyurl.com/OLD-CLOX RH> We use a local guy who's 3rd generation clock/watch repair man. I RH> inherited another clock that was my grandparents, plus we have a RH> couckoo clock we bought in Germany that have all visited him at one RH> time or another. We've got 2 other chiming clocks, plus a few digital RH> ones; we like the sound of a chiming clock in the house. Anyway, this RH> guy told us how to prepare a grandfather clock for transporting; my RH> sister and brother ignored Steve when he passed on the information and RH> now the grandfather clock that was my great grand, grand and parent's RH> clock doesn't work. She doesn't have the $$$ to fix it either so it's RH> just taking up room in her house, sad. DD> People like that who think they know more than the guy who wrote the DD> book, get little sympathy from me. It's on their shoulders. Yes but it's a shame to know the clock is just sitting there, a big dust catcher. It has the old tubular, very mellow chimes. We'd have taken it if we had the room but don't so........... DD> Chocolate covered espresso DD> - beans; opt RH> I'll just stick with all chocolate (or chocolate/mint) brownies. To RH> make them mint, use peppermint extract instead of vanilla or, as soon RH> as they come out of the oven, top with York peppermint patties, smooth RH> into an icing to cover as they soften. DD> OK. If you ever decide you'd like to do the recipe - for a special day DD> or occasion - you can substitute McCormicks Coffee Extract for the DD> booze. I'd probably still go with vanilla or mint. --- Catch you later, Ruth rchaffly{at}earthlink{dot}net FIDO 1:396/45.28 .... Mind... Mind... Let's see, I had one of those around here someplace. --- PPoint 3.01 * Origin: Sew! That's My Point (1:396/45.28) .