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How Do You Make Your Coffee ?
We use an electric percolator. Mrs. Z gets it ready every night before bed; the first one up plugs it in. We used those crapified plastic drip coffee-makers for a while because they were supposed to be faster than a percolator but they never lasted us very long and it always annoyed me that if you poured yourself a cup too soon, a drip or two would come out and make a "hiss" when they hit the hotplate. When these fast percolators came out we switched over and have been using them ever since. We use a French press and fresh ground for fancy after-dinner coffee. I've never understood the Starbuck's thing. I know that stuff is very popular, their drive-throughs have long lines every morning, it just seems like a lot of money for something as simple as a cup of coffee. If I need another cup after I leave the house there's always Circle K. One time in Bisbee I got a cup from one of those fancy coffee places. It was right across the street from the hotel and the only Circle K in town was a long walk away, uphill. The menu was confusing, so I asked the barista for the closest thing they had to Circle K house blend.
When we go camping, we get to enjoy the true Western cowboy coffee. Cowboys drank coffee with every meal and coffee is part of cowboy lore. Here's a description from The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment and His Part in the Development of the West by Philip Ashton Rollins, published in 1924.
The pitching of camp was a simple process. It consisted of stripping the saddle and bridle from the horse, of turning the latter loose to graze either at the end of a picket rope or within the grip of hobbles, and finally of building a fire. Lighting the fire was not always an easy matter, for matches might be wet or lost. Then it would call for powder from a dissected cartridge, and the igniting of it by a pistol-shot. Careless aiming of it might "hang the kindlings on the scenery."
If, as was usually the case, the camp's coffee were unground, its beans were mashed on a rock with the butt of a pistol. The resultant mixture of vegetable and mineral substances was set aside until the frying-pan should have cooked, first, bread and, next, bacon.
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The thus baked bread, the historic "frying-pan bread" of the West, vacated the pan, and into the latter went strips of bacon. When these had been fried, the pan was rapped against a rock or tree, to expel such of the grease as readily would leave, and then received a charge of water and the coffee-gravel mixture. When the boiling fluid was fairly well covered with fat melted from the utensil's sides, the dose-like beverage was ready for consumption.
The cowboy in the picture above is not traveling alone. He has the luxury of a coffee pot, which is too big to wrap up in the slicker behind his saddle, and he's got Maxwell House ready-ground coffee. He's either traveling with a compadre and they've got a pack-horse, or he's part of a drive and the coffee-pot belongs to the chuck-wagon. Here's another description of cowboy coffee, this time from J.P.S. Brown's classic novel
The Outfit:
When the boys were through daubing, Cunningham decided to break for lunch. Wilson built a fire in the high wind and boiled coffee water in a gallon can. He dropped a handful of coffee on the water, sprinkled it with cold water to settle the grounds, and set it aside to steep. When he thought the grounds had settled he picked the can up.
"Coffee, Burt?" he asked.
That's closer to the way I do it. We have a car so we can carry a
peltre coffee-pot and I use a one-burner Coleman stove unless it's Sunday.
On Sundays in camp we make a fire and have campfire bacon and pancakes. On other days I don't make a fire in the morning, I just pump up the Coleman stove and use that. I boil the water and measure in two big scoops of coffee. Then I stir the coffee in and put it back on the burner for just a second or two before setting it aside to steep. When I feel like it's done, I pour in a half-a-cup of cold water to settle the grounds and, voila, coffee's ready. Well, there's my little screed on cowboy coffee. Wasn't that romantic ? I know a lot of CUAers drink coffee in the morning while they read the diary and I'll bet there's lots of different ways of making it. So how 'bout it ...
How Do You Make Your Coffee ?
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Sunday, December 28th
Koscadia Meet-up with navajo & Pipe Ceremony with Ojibwa to Bless Quilts
TIME: 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Private home
[Kosmail Sara R for the address] • Portland
ORGANIZER: Send Sara R to attend
RSVPs:
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3. Sara R
4. winglion
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Saturday & Sunday, January 17-18, 2015
Dkos Asheville 24-hour Meet-up
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Saturday, January 17th
Seattle & Puget Sound Kos Meet-up with Meteor Blades & navajo to Connect, Unite and help plan Action for 2015!
TIME: 12:30 - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: Pyramid Alehouse, Brewery & Restaurant Executive Room
1201 First Avenue South • Seattle
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ORGANIZER: Send John Crapper a kosmail to attend
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2. navajo
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5. PennyGC
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8. doingbusinessas
9. Smrichmond
10. capt snagger
11. bleeding blue
12. John Crapper's SO
13. Ryan P - guest of JC
14. Kitsap River
15. Kitsap River's SO
MAX OCCUPANCY: 40
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Angie in WA State
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Saturday, February 28th
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TIME: Noon
LOCATION: TBD
[Address] • Austin
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2. Chrislove
3. navajo
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