COFFEE.
It is simple to make coffee. Of course, when properly made, with good berries, the liquor is good.
When good roasted coffee can be bought, it saves the trouble of roasting it, and is, or rather ought to be, cheaper than it can be done in a family.
If coffee is roasted a long time before being used it loses much of its aroma, therefore a family ought not to roast more than it can use in about a week, while twenty or twenty-five pounds can be roasted at one time and by one person.
Three or four different kinds, roasted separately, and properly mixed, make better coffee than one kind alone.
A good proportion is: to one pound of Java add about four ounces of Mocha, and four ounces of one or two other kinds.
Good coffee, as well as tea, is said to possess exhilarating properties.
Its use was not known in Europe before 1650. Neither was the use of sugar, tobacco, and brandy.
Good coffee cannot be made but by leaching.