[Magdalen] coffee

[Lynn Ronkainen]

I make French Press coffee when it's more than me around... using freshly 
ground Trader Joe's beans in the blue canister.

I prefer cold-soaked coffee, for which I use El Busto.... heaven in a cup 
<gdr>... about 5 years ago Jo Craddock  mentioned cold soaked and I looked 
into it and experimented. I've got it down to a 'science' for my 10oz 
package and end up with about 3 quarts of coffee 'concentrate', and I dilute 
it with water (hot or cold) to serve (if water, I boil it in my electric 
kettle - not keen on microwave heating) and sometimes in the summer, dilute 
50/50 with skim milk and pour over ice. I mostly dilute my particular 
mixture 50/50 water to base, but sometimes 1/3 base and 2/3 water.  The base 
concentrate keeps in the fridge for up to two weeks.  There are expensive 
systems to create the extract, but I  just use a huge stainless steel bowl, 
empty ground coffee, add some water and whisk to wet the grounds and then 
more water to fill, soak 12 hours covered with a plate and drain in colander 
through a piece of clean muslin and pour into glass jars.

Cold-soaked is becoming more popular since I started making it and now there 
are many 'directions' online.  There are also devices that make it - of 
varying expense and rigmarole. I once found a 'recipe' where you soak the 
grounds overnight in a French press. I prefer having the large quantity on 
hand and available in the fridge.

Lynn

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From: "Cantor03--- via Magdalen" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 1:36 PM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] coffee

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>
> In a message dated 1/4/2015 12:55:19 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> michaudme at gmail.com writes:
>
> I don't  drink coffee usually, but when I make coffee for guests
> I use a french  press coffee pot. And it makes excellent
> coffee. I'm even likely to have  some.>>>>
>
> This is, apparently, the best method.  At least that's what I've
> read repeatedly.  Next the filter variety that I used for  years.
> Finally the percolator method favored by my mother for decades.
> She drank gallons of weak dreadful coffee from those contraptions.
> It's probably why she lived to be 98.
>
>
> David Strang.
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