Coffee

Coffee beans come from some place in the Midel East. No one knows for sure where. But in the 1600 hundred it become populaur drink in the west. Coffee come to the collny's in the 1700's. Coffee beans were bought green, they had to be roasted by the people who bought the green beans. after roasting the beans they had to be broken up into small chunks. Roasted coffee beans was not bought roasted till the 1900's. The first coffee grinder did not come on the sceen till the late 1700's. (but there was a small hand crank coffee grinder that could be bought from the midel East. but costley) It was comon to roast the coffee beans in an fry pan. I have been roasting coffee beans for about 2 years now. As the bean roast dark, a paper like skin will come off the bean and can be blowed off. The smell of coffee will be very strong as it blowes across camp. If you are interested in buying green coffee beans. Here is the sight I use. These beans you can get from country. (I am growing my own coffee beans right now. It takes 3 years befor the plant produces coffee beans) www.coffeebeancorral.com

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The best place for green beans for sure. And they are fast getting them to folks.

Been roasting for at least seven years. Night and day difference to the commercial manure. I Use Coffee Beans Canada - Canadian Roasters & Distributors
Well worth doing it yourself if you like Coffee for flavour.

Coffee sellers in colonial America did make pre roasted coffee available
And special coffee roaster that could roast about a pound at a time were common.
I got an Arab style grinder. It takes at least an hour to grid enough for a pot of coffee

Those roasted beans look delicious. Seems like there's a fine line between roasted and burnt.

Diggin your three legged stove too. That upper triangle is a smart idea.

I used to roast all my own coffee and now only do it once in awhile.

Sweetmarias.com has very good green beans.

I use this very period correct popcorn popper to roast my beans warm up for a few minutes out in ~3oz... Enough to where it will just rotate slowly from the circulation of the air. Dump out when ready into a skillet with a fan or cool blowdryer on it to cool quickly and blow the remaining chaff off. I can power it with my mule, er outlets

I think the historically correct deal was to toast or roast dry in a pan and then put in a leather pouch and pound on a rock to break up the beans and then boil in water.
I live alone and I take 1 1/4 cups of water, regular small pot, bring to a boil, 2-3 minutes tops, put in one table spoon of coffee grinds and boil 20 seconds (doesn't turn bitter) and then let the grounds settle and pour off the top cup, leaving the grinds and a little water to toss out.

Brian Sweeney said:

The best place for green beans for sure. And they are fast getting them to folks.

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Yes. They are very fast with orders.

64Springer said:

Are you a Nigerian Prince?

What will happen if we click on the link?

We send the coffee company 100 dollars to get our internet information back.

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What are you talking about? Allway one or two people like you.

tenngun said:

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I got an Arab style grinder. It takes at least an hour to grid enough for a pot of coffee

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I like a good dark roast myself. I need to set myself up to post photos. Very good.

okstra said:

What are you talking about? Allway one or two people like you.

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I'm sorry I offended you.

Great pic's tenngun.

We have two different things here, just coffee and how they did it historically.

There is a few sentences in the book Wah-to-yah and the Taos Trail (1846?) Where the author describes how they roasted and ground their beans out on the frontier that year. I will have to see if I can find that section and I will post it here.

We drink STRONG French Roast at home. But in camp, my wife insists that I roast the beans and bust em up with the back of my axe, then boil 'em up. Because it is the best dadgum cup of joe we can find. Love good camp coffee!

Once again , I'm astounded , what a guy can learn on the Forum. WOW! There's a story in an old book I read. A young , "over- the- mountain boy " was sent East , by his father , to attend a school to be taught reading , writing , and other school studies not available on the frontier of western Appalachia. The travelers came to an inn on the eastern side of the mountains , and sat down to eat supper. The young boy sat at a long dinner table , with the rest of the guests. The food he was given was very tasty , but the dark colored drink he was supplied with , to wash the food down , was to him , unpalatable , and too strong to drink. To his dismay , soon as he drank the liquid from the small cup , someone came and filled the cup again . He was taught back woods table manners , that required him to eat and drink , what he was given , w/o complaint. Finally , the fellow sitting beside him was finished eating , and turned his empty cup upside down , so it couldn't be filled. At last , our back woods youngster , learned how to stop the foul liquid from automatically , going into his cup. Just turn the cup upside down before the meal , and the foul tasting , "coffee" wouldn't be dispensed. ............Can't remember the date of this story , so I'll have to reread some books in my collection. Could have been around 1800.

Some of the Sharps rifles had a coffee grinder in the stock, highly sought aafter

The Colonial Maine Living History Association had a workshop trying several late 1700s methods of brewing coffee. The results were quite...interesting.

Packrat said:

Some of the Sharps rifles had a coffee grinder in the stock, highly sought aafter

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Some say that it is really for grinding corn into meal. I handled one of these carbines when I was a boy. It was in near perfect condition. Probably used less than a standard carbine was. And it ground coffee very well.