Friday: Jessup Whitehead on Coffee Preparation (and I will NEED coffee)

I am heading out tomorrow for the Charlotte Huck Festival (yay!) and it will be an early, EARLY morning.  So I will need THIS -- coffee, coffee, COFFEE!

I'll probably be knitting and listening to podcasts at the airport.  For some reason, I can't read when I'm very tired and at the airport, though I know I'll be getting out the Kindle and trying it out a few times. Anyway, one of the pleasures of travel for me is knitting and listening to podcasts. I can't do the laundry, so why not enjoy myself? 

Anyway, in the spirit of tomorrow's travels, here's a quote from Jessup Whitehad (what a name!) on coffee. Mr. Whitehead wrote a series of books for hotels with recipes and stories and all sorts of other fun things. I love finding great stuff while researching a book, and a blog is a perfect place to share it.  Here goes. Here's Whiteheads' recommendation for preparing this "berry" for maximum refreshment:

Coffee causes wakefulness when eaten raw, or drawn by long steeping in cold water, its effects are rather deadened than increased when it is made into the pleasant breakfast beverage with cream and sugar. It's energy is most expansive in the out door camp where, boiled in a camp kettle it is drunk by the pint or quart without milk and the drowsy hunters or travelers spring up and start singing.  

-- Jessup Whitehead, Cooking for Profit: A New American Cook Book (Chicago: Jessup Whitead & Co., 1893)

[Photo: Chicago O'Hare airport... ah yes.]