1931 Cuban Cookery by Blanche Z de Baralt

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"Coffee must be as strong as love, as black as ink and ·as hot as the devil". Cubans are great coffee drinkers, most exacting as to the quality of the bean and the excellence of its preparation. It is simple enough to make coffee as it is done in Cuba and all Spanish America, but care and attention will alone assure good results. A plain tin or enamelled French coffee pot is used, with a fine strainer in the upper section. For 4 small cups of strong' coffee, 4 heaping tablespoon.fuls of well roasted, finely g'round coffee are necessary. Put the coffee in the upper part of the coffee pot. Put 5 small cups of water /-\,.. in a saucepan (one for each cup and an '' extra one which will be absorbed by the grounds). Let the water boil hard. Then pour it on the coffee little by little, about a tablespoonful at a time. The water