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Coffee Making Tips

Your Guide of Coffee Making Tips From Brewing to Serving Among the ‘non-connoisseurs’ of coffee, making a great tasting brew can either appear as straight forward as pouring boiling water as you would with tea or it can appear quite mystical with all the different blends and roasts, never mind the coffee machines of varying designs with switches and levers, filters and pots! The simplest and...

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Can Coffee Be Grown at Home?

Although the coffee plant and tree are beautiful to look at, especially during blossoming and unless you have an absolute fortune to spend on the production process, the chances of you reaping the rewards of having a coffee tree in your back garden are slim to none. Sorry! You see, actually drinking your ‘coffee harvest’ and growing the tree are two completely different things. It could actually be...

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Does Coffee Help With Constipation?

There is some confusion about coffee helping with constipation, so after extensive research this is what I have uncovered. Coffee is a diuretic, which means that your need to pass urine will increase when you drink it. And if you don’t replace this loss of fluid from your body (with water), you will find yourself in a state of dehydration. And dehydration is a cause of constipation. So does coffee...

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Coffee Syrup Recipe

How to Make Coffee Syrup Ingredients: 500g of sugar 150ml of water 2 teaspoons of instant coffee 4 tablespoons of coca Method for Making Coffee Syrup Nice and simple recipe. Boil the water and the sugar in a small saucepan until syrupy. Next add the instant coffee and the cocoa powder and continue to boil a little while longer until you have the desired consistency. Serving suggestion: I have made this...

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Cinnamon Coffee Cake

A Delicious Cinnamon Coffee Cake Recipe Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour 2 1/2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. salt 1/2 cup sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup vegetable oil 3/4 cup milk How to Make Cinnamon Coffee Cake Firstly beat the egg, milk and the oil together. Then separately mix the dry ingredients and add to the egg mix. With flour, dust out a buttered baking dish tapping away any excess once you’ve...

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Frozen Coffee Mousse Praline Recipe

How to Make Frozen Coffee Mousse Praline Ingredients: Hazelnut pralin 4 eggs (yolks separated from whites) 2 tablespoons of caster sugar 3 teaspoons instant coffee 300ml double cream First make the pralin: Heat 100g of hazelnuts in a frying pan, all the while shaking it so they brown all over. Then add 100g sugar and stir until the sugar is melted and brown. Keep stirring the mixture so that the...

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St Valentine’s Cream Recipe

How to Make St Valentines Cream Ingredients: 125g of cream cheese 2 eggs (whites separate from yolks) 2 dessert spoons of sugar 2 dessert spoons of cream 1 teaspoon of fresh coffee grounds/instant coffee Method: Beat the cream cheese into the egg yolks, the sugar and the cream, until well mixed together. Next add the coffee and mix well again. Fold in the egg whites which have already been beaten well....

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Mocha Butter Cream Recipe

How to Make Mocha Butter Cream This is a cream filling for cakes. Ingredients: 2 egg yolks 75g of icing sugar 2 or 3 tablespoons of instant coffee 2 tablespoons of water (milk or rum!) 75g of unsalted butter Method: Beat the egg yolks in with the icing sugar until pale and creamy. Carry on beating the mixture over boiling water until the cream has thickened. Then dissolve the coffee in the hot water two...

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Coffee Sauce Recipe

How to Make Coffee Sauce This is a really easy sauce recipe to serve with puddings. Just beat together two whole eggs. Slowly add 150ml of strong coffee, beating well. Next add a pinch of salt and 50g of sugar and stir in a small saucepan over boiling water until the sauce thickens. Do not let it curdle. Then put in the refrigerator to Chill for a couple of hours and just before serving, fold in 150ml of...

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Chocolate and Coffee Sauce Recipe

How to Make Chocolate and Coffee Sauce This is a really tasty chocolate sauce to serve with puddings and ice creams. Method: Just melt 100g of cooking chocolate in 30ml of strong black coffee and stir well until the chocolate has melted completely. Let it cool and then add 50g of butter, just a little at a time, beating until it is thoroughly blended in. Voila, a really tasty coffee sauce with chocolate!...