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£0FFEE
"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