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Post by carpathianpeasant on Sept 10, 2015 1:52:45 GMT -6
When I was growing up, people brewed coffee from ground up beans and used real coffee cream (not half & half) in it. Well, if nothing else, it's impractical to brew up a big pot of coffee for one person and just try to find real coffee cream in stores.
One can get by with instant coffee in a cup in a microwave if one goes heavy on the coffee (it's naturally weaker than brewed coffee), but coffee creamer (the powdered stuff) does little beside make it white. There has been a wish in the back of the mind to try to do something about that for some time.
Quite by accident I wound up with some packets of dry (powdered) milk. Well, that doesn't make anything but a sort of skim milk (this house wants "whole milk"), so what to do with the packets? In the floundering around, some of it was dumped into the "instant coffee, powdered creamer" excuse for a cup of coffee, and (surprisingly) it seemed to give it some of that "body" of long ago.
So.... If you use instant coffee and powdered creamer, try a teaspoon of dry milk in there, too. It's available in supermarkets. (And, for extra flavor, something like about a quarter to a half of a teaspoon of cinnamon-sugar does a lot.)
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Post by rdlb on Sept 12, 2015 14:24:07 GMT -6
My wife uses powdered goat milk as she is more allergic to the other milks.
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Post by lowell on Sept 12, 2015 15:53:08 GMT -6
I drink mine black. In the morning, the least amount of fuss before the coffee is consumed, the better. I do fuss a bit about my wife's coffee though. She has splenda and canned milk with hers. The canned milk is very close to the taste of cream. We use a drip coffee maker and we distill the water we use for coffee in a home distillation unit. I used to buy my grounds at Starbucks but I found that their coffee always tasted better in the store than what I brewed at home, so I asked the owner of the local Starbucks why that was. He told me that the most important thing for good tasting coffee is pure water. The other thing he suggested was freshly ground beans. We tried grinding beans, but it is more trouble for the amount of added taste. So we just get a good ground coffee now. My wife likes Folgers best. I like the Costco "Kirkland" columbian brand best.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2015 10:29:52 GMT -6
I always liked a couple cups of coffee in the morning, I liked cream and sugar but because of a health issue I need to avoid caffeine. No coffee for me.
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