Café Noir

Instructions

1. Proceed exactly as for the breakfast coffee, but add only so much water as is required to make the strongest possible infusion. This is the very essence of coffee.
2. Serve about two-thirds of a small cupful - not more - to each person.
3. Sweeten it almost to syrup with highly refined sugar in lumps. White sugar-candy in powder may be served with it in addition to the sugar in lumps.
4. When to serve it: immediately after the rice-crust. In families of moderate rank it is generally taken before they leave the table; in more refined life it is served in the drawing-room the instant dinner is ended, commonly with liqueurs after it, but not invariably.