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COFFEE and LIQUEURS
How Badly Do We Make It?
● HELEN BURKE holds a coffee quiz on behalf of the COOKERY CLUB.
by HELEN BURKE
UT your coffee
is terrible." That's what
some of the foreign
Robert Kingsley
studies a new guide
THE
to alcoholometry
and is tempted by-
A piggin of huckle-my-tuff
priim,
PICKING up the book you might think, from its file, that it won just another to put on the shelf among those whose slim, volumes
tourists say.
Some people believe in authors treat the subject of drinking as though it were a re- boiling
coffee and the ligious rite administerable only longer the bettor. That is by themselves. how they spoil it.
I have tasted coffee made in every possible way, but I never boil it.
I make it in an earthenware teapot, kept specially for the purpose, and never wash it with soap and water. A trace of left
behind soap would apoll the flavour,
To boll coffee, even if it is just brought to the boil and removed the prescribed three times, is a crline.
.Plus mustard
Some people add a pinch salt to bring out the flavour coffice,
despite its Dut this book," sombre title, and a
sub-title suggestive of night classes in alcoholometry, is as robust and cheerful as talk in a four-ale bar: as full of incidental intelli- gence as an embassy, cocktail party.
Underground
One learns the serious aspects of the business-how to diall gin or to decant wine; one is told the important facts-how some 600 millions proof gallons of whisky are at this moment of maturing in the USA, and how of there are more than 100 miles
underground of
structures
I once heard of a man who devoted to champagne-making
always put a tiny shaving of in Rheims.
garlle into his, and of yet an- other who dropped a pinch of
dry mustard into the pot,
Even more important, perhaps, than the degree of roasting and the blend, is the amount of coffes you use. You will never make a good cup of coffee if you are sparing with it.
My coffee merchant prescribes two rounded tablespoonfuls of
Then the teacher Icaves his rostrum and informs you lightly that "when the drunken man approaches the do- Urium tremens stage and sees pink elephants... the primary cause is
not the pre- sence of alcohol but the absence of vitamin B1." and he goes on to furnish proof.
volume, he reckons one would need to drink about ten times as much beer as brandy to reach a given level of inebriation.
Brandy (there ого nbout 23,000,000 gallons of true cognac produced most years) should bo consumed, says Mr Mendelsohn,
with great circumspection."
The tang
Passing on to gin, Mr Mendel- sohn notes some of the flavour- ing used by gin manufacturers to give their product an ind!- vidual tong. The characteristic favour of gin is all of juniper; the makers may brighten it up. with any
of these: liquorice, orris, fennel, coriander, einna- mon, cardamoma, almonds, para- dise grains "and even turpentine and vanilla."
As for the vermouth that goes with the gin, there is a hand- took that lists 59 vermouth herbs, starting at allspice and ending with zeodaty, and al contain wormwood, which is harmless in small quantities.
lic
Mir
"The Anglo Saxon
declares drinker," Mendelsohn a little fur ther on, "Is usually very far astray in his ideas of
alcoho the strength (ie., alc percentage) of his beverages. It should be useful to give a short tabulation,"
This Mr Mendelsohn proce
proceeds to do, giving strengths es par- of alcohol by volume, centages coffee to a pint of boiling water
reent would mean I use threo tablespoonfuls at
two quarts of pure alcohol in a least and, for after-dinner coffee, As a wine-lover (oenophile, it
gallon of the beverage. author the you prefer it) Heat
the pot (earthenware, laments our ways with wine in "the whole silver or glass). Add the coffee, England by which; not too finely ground, and pour habit of wine-drinking became the boiling water into the pat sort of esoteric business, al- Cover and leave for two most 4 mild exhibitionism.” minutes on a hot part of the Frenchmen (who drink - three wine per head Stir with a silver or times as much
the Englishman wooden spoon and, if you like, per year as
orc drinks beer)
far more sprinkle in a tablespoonful
sensible.
a trifle more,
stove.
cold water,
of
Leave for another two minutes. and it is ready to pour.
If you use a coffee-making machine with the round glass bowl and a glass stópper in the top container, you can let the coffee rise twice without ruin ing it.
Keep it fresh
If you use the American pet- colator type of coffee-maker, de not allow the coffee to bubble up and bver the grounds for too long.
Depravity
Of cider the author says sadly: "Note, that the ailly British aristocrat, who will rhapsodise over a bottle of sometimes, in- different French wine, remains ignorant of the high virtue of the fine cider grown in his own land. The best British elder still has a tang, verve, delicacy and healthfulness worthy of a place on any table.”
Talking of, ports: "Because of their high content of alcohol, and of their relatively low price spirits (ports) compared with
to are most convenient vehicle
port
The
so that 50 percent
the On this rating, strength of beers range from 2 to 3 per cent; claret. burgundy chablis,
sauternes, hock, moselle and chianti vary
from
to 14 per B cent; sherry rates 18 per cent, champagne 13, vermouth 10 to
NOVEMBER – 4** 1980.
Many Happy Retwins
19 our dear
UN
NOT-SO-HAPPY RETURN
World Copyright. 'My arrangement with Daily Herald.
How much would
Pontecorvo
worth
car.
W
be
to Russia?
HIGHLY respected man, his wife, and three children set off for a Continental holiday in the family
Nobody worries during the ensuing 20, spirits "rather variable" be weeks of silence. But within hours of
tween 40 and
55.pnews that the man has. disappeared
from 30 to 65
could be sold a secret police are on the move in half a profit for a few shillinge a gallon dozen countries, ferreting into his about the price of methylated political past and screening his friends.
spirit; the same article, sold us a beverage costs about 30 times difference being Es much, the almost all taxation.
From 'considering the strength of wines, we pass finally to a joyous kind of drinker's dictionary,
IF YOU CAPTURE
¶ ONE MAN'S MIND
AND ITS SECRETS....... How big can the prize be? The atom era sets a new poser for nations which must place the security of the many in the hands of a trusted' few. Today
CHAPMAN PINCHER
sets out to assess how great could be the profit to a foreign Power from the pickings of one man's brain. -
This is the price of a civilisation in which machines are so powerful that the technical facts one man can cram into his head may imperil a nation's security.
eost millions of Canadian dol- lars and British pounds.
81-page glossary of Let us assume for the pur terms relating to the art; and poses of this inquiry that Pro- what words there are in
What a night you could have fessor Bruno Pontecorvo and Vital
mixing not only your drinks his knowledge were now in slans need
most important branches of
Crambambull
and
1
which
There is no evidence that the glant atomic furnaces drunkard is a pathetic piece swig from a Peg-tankard and
then are established, of work,"
a sip from a Piggin, samp-professor took any secret docu- ing
a Crinze a Mum and a ments or blueprints with him..
the lot Costrel and washing down with a draught from a In His Head Fuddling Cup.
For drip coffee, the trick is to pour very little bolling water on to the dry start little channels through the for alcoholic depravity. grinds.
When theso the boiling water can be poured In general, Mr Mendelsohn through quite quickly with scoffs at the idea that there lies mixing drinks; what peril in excellent results.
Coffee should be freshly matters is the alcoholle content ground. If this is not possible, of each drink taken. Volume for buy it in gräall quantities and
Earnest Druker, by store it in a tight screwtop jar with a rubber ring to prevent Oscar A. Mendelsohn (George the aroma escaping.
*The
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of the
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plastic
"WHAT 18 the best for making the pipes
which siphon off the Wasts from t atomic furumi(e)"
PARIS LETTER
EX RAF MAN FINDS HOME ON SEINE
PARIS.
X-SQUADRON Lender Pater Lockett, who spent five years in German prison camps after
his fighter had, becn.shot down in 1940, has solvod the still-acute housing
blem in Paris
With his beautiful wife, Chris, and their 10-month- old daughter Carol, ho lives in the 72-ft. motor cruiser Nial tied up just under the windowa of the Quai d'Orsay (the French Foreign Office) between the Concorde and Alexan- der III bridges,
Every morning he puts on hla black homburg and goes to his work as a shipping agent. Like many other Parls business men, he is. home for lach.
DECKHAND TO HELP
A baby carriage is parked on deck: Mrs Lockett wheels Carol ashore in it dally. To help her with the housework and cook- ing is a young French dock- hand.
The. Locketts sailed up the Seine from the Hamble River during the summer. They in- tend to stay aboard the Nial all winter.
"I got to like the French way of life when I was stationed hero after the war," he said. "Now I would not care to live anywhere else”
The Locketts pay nothing for mowing beside
the Qual d'Orsay,
LATEST UMBRELLAS ·
THE
Impressively
showed
Federation of the Indus- tries of the Umbrella their latest linos, at's smart cocktail party spoontly,
Models varied from chubby folding types to tall, directoire umbrellas about three feet four fches high. Most unusual were in ruby or sapphird velvet.
The long Handle of one um brella was topped by an'antique
| baby's "rattio^an ^^silver, with
The answers to these questiny tinkling Tells and a whistle tions which a man of Porte- which gave a piercing shriek He has done years of re- corvo's standing and experience why 1 blow 18.... search with beavy hydrogen would be in a position to give and a super-heavy form of could save the Russians months The most fashionable th hydrogen called tritium. These of costly trial-and-error ex-brella for this winter is of the would form the main explosive periments - mixture in the hydroguti bomb..
Hard Facts
“would” the "Russians" dat
And Again-
THERE
is a further subject
on which anyone who has
style and length of the ones Queen Mary has carried for. years. 'Favourite colour-black.
AMERICAN PLAYS
held a high-level job in the TOUR American plays,
hub of Britain's atom.research-
10-
cluding "Death of a Sales- the Harwell, Berks, laboratories man," and "Born Yesterday,"
would have highly
con; are to be put on in English by fidential knowledge,
the newly formed American
The professor has in his hedd
information the Bus
two of the
60 as far as ckports exist in with Lamb's Wool Russian hands. What would this atomic weapon manufacture:- this almost triexplored field of Huckle-my-tuff, Pharaoh meat to the Bussland in terms
weapon research, Pontecorvo is Tom-and-Gerry; with
but of time and manpower, which
FIRST-HAND Iowledge of one of them. mixing the glasses and
cups together mean monoy?
how to design, and build the you drank
from, taking a them
make atom bomb explosive.
Pontecorvo was one scientists chiefly responsible for JUST what sort of questions the design of the huge furnace at such a scientist if he Were This is exact information on Theatre Society... Chalk River, Canada, which is
know the stages Britain has reached willing to give his full
Tho alm believed to be the most advanced ledge? They are not so much in the various fields of atom-High" has just started
"Twelve O'Clock of its type in the world. n
mathe weapon research. interested in abstruse
under the title: "Un Homme This
per matical symbols as in simple
In his nuclear pitysics work de Fer" (A Man of Iron). plutonium, the more powerful hard engineering facts.
at Harwell, Professor. Ponte- A "Mark 11," explosive used in
"Stromboll," which has had For example-
corvo Came
into day-to-day a lukewarm Press, starts after a Je, Nagasaki and Bikin
contact with problema concera- big gala opening at the Opera. bomba.
“WHAT DID you find to be ing the Government's main the best material for making atomie explosive plant being All the work the professor the washers in the pumps which built at Sellafield, West. Cum- did on
that project between have to carry highly corro barlund. 1943 and 1940s graded
Bravo splendid worda, drinkers use; and "hangover" does not appear in the list.
(World Copyright—London Express Service).
i
DUT in the recesses of hie Barefully
trained mind hò carries vcret information walch has taleen thousands of scien tists seven years to collect and
HAZARD HOUSE ON TOUR
By Ronald Garth-Davis
A life-saving
200 will become
Surmara
NEW NIGHT SPOT
A run
top secret. None of It has been rive uranium vapours?
Ho must know exactly whaVET another new night spot publzthel
*WHAT WAS the most the plant is due to start up, else has opened in the art quarter. The Rusdans have staged an efficient arrangement for spacing.
and of St. Germalo dos ~~ Prest atomic explosion. But there is the uranium rods in an atomle" "There is no proof that L'Arche de Now (Noah's Ark). no evidence that they Have yet furnace?
Pontecorvo has fallon into found out how to mass-produce
me Busalan hands, or that this Under previous managements atomic bombs. Indeed there is "WHAT IS the most economi- speculation was anything but it was Gipsy'd, the Furious Fol- evidenoz ngalast this.
din- wearing
Service)
evary
Danzer lurks in the nicest domestic casualty ...... unless the homes. We still allow.trip. rugs publle can be forever, by on highly polished floors, neglect exhibits of the Hazard House reils,and anti-skid mals in bath, NEW experiment in House-the accident prevention.
typo, movie displays, poster sube used by elderly folk. We experts nops will effectively campaigns and incessant safety omit even the máy
elementary demonstrata that it's better to
campaigns.
cal thickness and length for the groundless.
Los, the shortly
waining pin from, the cork Di
Two Orphans, tho tour Hongkong. be safe than sorry,
the polson bottle. Thanks to
uranium coda?.
Whale, and the Motise. In showrooms, for instance,
But in this atom age a nation's Closely watched by safety Accompanying the exhibition,
the authorities urge that de lack of this preciation, nearly PONTECORVO is one of the
“HOW LONG did the blocks anxiety over a missing man must
This time the doopr first associations, a fara barrage of statistics on sc-
third of all poisoning choose few men with wide x of graphite last in the furnace? necessarily be heightened when original dressmakers monstration stoves should be result from medicine or drugs cident fatalities is likely to give tapped by pots and pans with taken from the wrong bottle in which will have to be used to perlenen in handling,materinis called from ideal home
visitors an extra shock For their handles turned to the back, the dark...
"WHAT DID You find was this his mind is a storehouseofundes stand around nothing but top batz Hazard, House is touring every 50 people killed in the The handles get hotter that way.
malto, hydrogen boribs, if there most economical method of accrots which affect our safety. to spili.
provo practicable, Britain and is soon to streets in any average town, but they're harder
making heavy, watert
London Expram Apfely! launch, a new world tour people are uccidentally killed in Similarly, simple slogans' have. their homes, Though the Originally presented by a annual average of non-fatal road been invented to ram home the E streamline our kitchens- reminder that money saved on most dangerous room in the
∙misplaced". Home Ofice committee on accidents le too high in every safely is
house-to make them safer as community, perious domestic accidenta,Hazard
well as more convenient.
But House casualties
Publicity ar, twelve
can highlight the there are at all the bolt hus "everything wrong with higher.
hazards of neglected trifles-the things up 8869 Without tilaks risks of a fraying solo on your ing, -*- inflammablo fripperies For every 4 children killed shoe, of carrying more than under cars and lorries, there are you can 600 over, of neglecting worn at the gas-slove, kalves 10 who till balling pails, kettles a jutting all of a rickety chair cast haphazardly into a drawer, boiling fruit, watched iná We all able to every fault spoillant are scalded to deathuually know that electric or teapple over themselves and for areaching - sietves: ca nu kudy livid reality the when Mother has. Just turned bathrooms.pol potential that shatter on being gentcod: **** Arce in Vacuum jar, paraffin urod to ex- pedite Arclighting, milk-bottled coldent-causing effects of diare- her back.
electrocution... Becaumi wa KNOW, and therefore take sad cut an artery,»
donths* from this causo have strunk to a negilgible,
it that it shouldn't have..
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as to this hall, of horrors will be
garded, reacts noxd" tour. The
staircokor jistance, is not
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