Turkish Coffee
As many know, I love espressos, the problem is, they ain’t correct in the 19th Century, so when I want a good strong cup, I go to an older form, commonly called Turkish Coffee although it is popular all through the Middle East and southern Europe. In fact this is one of the oldest ways to serve coffee.
To make this, one needs and ibrik (Know by other names in languages other than Turkish.) a teaspoon and demitasse cups. Also one will need coffee ground as fine as flour, I prefer a real dark roast, but any roast is fine, also some sugar, I prefer brown sugar and if desired cardamom.
The ibrk looks like this and is most often made out of copper with a tin lining:
The one I have is a 12 oz, this is important to know, because it needs filled to the neck, so mine will make 3-4 cups.
Add one to two heaping teaspoons of sugar for each 3-4 ozs, fill just to the neck with clean cold water, add 1-2 heaping teaspoons of the powdered coffee for each cup and a pinch or two of ground cardamom if desired., do not stir
Put the ibrik on a heat source and slowly bring it up to a boil, it will foam as it boils. Remove from heat for a couple minutes, bring to a foamy boil again, remove from heat and do the same a third time. During the brewing, never stir it.
Pour with foam into demitasse cups and serve. One does not want to stir in the cup either,what you do is just drink down to the sludge.