What Is Egg Coffee?

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What Is Egg Coffee?

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An article in the Minnesota online
magazine Eater brought back
memories

of family farm gatherings with good
eats and lots of coffee.
The Era of Egg Coffee

The magazine reminds us that you
might crack an egg into your
coffee.

I remember watching my
grandmother make us egg coffee
when we’d visit her summertime
cabin home on the orange-tinged
shores of Lake Esquagama,
Minnesota.

She’d crack an egg into a small bowl
and beat it until thoroughly blended,
then mix the egg into dry coffee
grounds (we were a Hills Bros.
family, but Folger’s sometimes stood
in at the cabin).

The mixture was then put into a large
stove-top coffee pot and brought to a
boil.

Once it was good and roiling, she’d
turn the heat off and allow the
grounds to steep for 10 minutes.

After resting the pot, she’d dump a
coffee cup’s worth of cold water into
the pot and then gently pour several
cups of coffee.

The point of the cold water at the end
is that it caused to coffee grounds to
settle to the bottom of the pot.

This description fits coffee made by
my aunts Frieda, Marian, the other
Frieda, Anna, Sylvia, Katherine,
Lizzie or my mother, Wilma.

But in Southern Minnesota on
German farmsteads they just
cracked the egg and tossed it in the
pot, shell and all.

The end result was as described in
Eater, delicious coffee with the
bitterness removed.

Larger Grind, Less Bitter Taste

Another way to reduce the bitterness
in coffee is not to grind it too finely.
CBC News discusses the secret to a
perfect cup of coffee.

According to researcher Kevin
Moroney, the size of the grounds is
"vitally important" to the extraction of
coffee.

The larger the grind in drip coffee the
less bitter the taste, partially because
there are more gaps between the
grinds and the hot water can
circulate more easily.

The bitterness occurs when the
surface area of the grain is high (a
fine grind), preventing water from
easily flowing between the grounds
and increasing the amount of coffee
extracted from the beans.

However, you will get less caffeine
with less finely ground beans.

So, if you want to wake up grind the
beans a lot and if you want taste and
to be able to sleep at night use less
finely ground beans.

Arabica Coffee

And no matter how you prepare your
coffee the best organic coffee leads
to the best results and that is Arabica
organic coffee.

There are two basic species of
coffee, Arabica and Robusta. Arabica
coffee is generally believed to be the
first type of coffee to be cultivated.

So, if you buy Arabica organic coffee
you are buying into a tradition
stretching back over a thousand
years.

The so called coffee shrub of Africa
is believed to have originated in the
mountains of Yemen although there
is also evidence that the species
originated in the highlands of
Ethiopia and the Sudan.

When you buy Arabica organic coffee
you are choosing the species of
coffee with superior taste according
to many experts.

Café Arabica also contains less
caffeine than Robusta. Although wild
Arabica coffee plants can reach 12
meters in height coffee growers
typically prune the plant to no more
than 5 meters and often as short as 2
meters high to make the coffee
easier to pick.

Arabica coffee grows best at just
under a mile in altitude although it is
grown at sea level and as high as
7,500 feet. This healthy organic
coffee species does well with a meter
or meter and a half of rain a year,
planted on hillsides with good
drainage.

So, remember to buy good quality
organic coffee and remembrance of
grandmas and aunts from times long
past try a little egg coffee from time
to time.

What Is Egg Coffee?

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