Turkish coffee

[Delmonico]

Del, It gets the GAF seal of approval.

Yep.




I would like to try the stuff at Ft Concho also, even better make some there.

[Gen Lew Wallace]

I certainly will not debate that gentlemen.  I just wanted to convey my approval of coffee made on the campfire.  I just happened to enjoy it while spending 4 years in Texas and volunteering at Fort Concho.  I would gladly partake in any coffee made over a wood stoked fire.   

[Delmonico]

I certainly will not debate that gentlemen.  I just wanted to convey my approval of coffee made on the campfire.  I just happened to enjoy it while spending 4 years in Texas and volunteering at Fort Concho.  I would gladly partake in any coffee made over a wood stoked fire.   

And you would be welcome to a cup or more in my camp anytime.

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[Gen Lew Wallace]

Most kind of you sir.  You are a scholar and a gentleman.  I thank you and hope to take you up on the invite someday.

[Texas Lawdog]

Bro. Lew, You will always be welcome in our camp, My Brother.

[Steel Horse Bailey]

Howdy!

Long time "looker", 3rd time poster.   

Del & I have discussed this before, but I thought I'd add this now.

When I was but a wee lad of 8 years, in 1958-1959 I lived for a year in the town of Vicosa, in the state of Minas Gerias, in Brasil. (Brazil) (S.America)  The ONLY safe things to drink were Coca Cola and real Brazilian coffee.  (And occasionally Pet evaporated milk.  Yuck!)  The coffee we drank was from plants grown about 500 feet from my house.  The water was sooo bad ... (How bad was it?!)  ... that we had a big clay urn-looking filter in the corner of the kitchen up by the ceiling so gravity would help with the (already low) water pressure and after the water was filtered, we THEN boiled it!  I'm sure that there were adult beverages of sorts available, but since I was young, that didn't apply to me. 

Anyway, the coffee was extremely  strong, 'tho Mother and our maid, Maria always filtered out the grounds, so it wasn't exactly like Turkish.  Into a small cup went enough raw cane sugar (also grown nearby in another field) to fill the cup 1/3rd to 1/2 way, then the strong coffee poured over, thereby making a kind of runny syrup.  I guess some used milk in theirs (hence the presence of Pet evapo-milk, I suppose) but I don't remember ANY of the Americans using it and certainly NONE of our Brazilian friends.

It has only been in the last decade or so that I could tolerate drinking coffee in any form except this way.  The Greek restaurant in the little town of Fulda, (formerly West) Germany where I was stationed for nearly 8 years served their coffee pretty much the same way, but like the Turk stuff, with the grounds as powder (sludge) in the bottom of the cup.

Good memories!