Coffee for Travelling or Picnics

Ingredients

• 1 pound best Java coffee
• 0.25 pound chicory
• 1 breakfast-cup ground coffee
• 3 cups boiling water

Instructions

1. Roast one pound of the best Java coffee to a rich dark brown in an American coffee roaster at home.
2. Grind the roasted coffee whilst still warm.
3. Mix the ground coffee with a quarter pound of chicory.
4. Warm a block tin coffee-pot fitted with a flannel bag shaped like a jelly-bag.
5. Take one large breakfast-cup of the ground coffee mixture and pour it into the bag.
6. Pour three cups of boiling water over the coffee in the bag.
7. Keep the pot on the stove or coals and let it drain through the bag twice.
8. Pour the resulting concentrate into bottles and cork immediately.
9. For picnic use, add one tablespoon of the concentrate to a cup of boiling milk.