Coffee sagas
We aren't good at coffee.
One day recently I had to welcome people to church with the offer of "une tasse d'eau chaude parfum café" (a cup of coffee flavoured hot water). Not good.
The church has a filter coffee maker. We had one of these but we are not good with glass jugs, either, so now we have two plunger cafetières, one in plastic and the other in stainless steel. French people tell us that plunger cafetières make the best coffee.
Not in the hands of the Daveys, they don't.
Some friends who served for years in Austria said that they also had trouble getting to grips with the coffee, but they were helped by a chap who came to stay for a few days.
After the first go he said 'Double the coffee'.
After the second go he said 'Double the coffee again'.
By this simple expedient of repeatedly doubling the coffee they eventually got to the kind of brew Austrians need.
One day recently I had to welcome people to church with the offer of "une tasse d'eau chaude parfum café" (a cup of coffee flavoured hot water). Not good.
The church has a filter coffee maker. We had one of these but we are not good with glass jugs, either, so now we have two plunger cafetières, one in plastic and the other in stainless steel. French people tell us that plunger cafetières make the best coffee.
Not in the hands of the Daveys, they don't.
Some friends who served for years in Austria said that they also had trouble getting to grips with the coffee, but they were helped by a chap who came to stay for a few days.
After the first go he said 'Double the coffee'.
After the second go he said 'Double the coffee again'.
By this simple expedient of repeatedly doubling the coffee they eventually got to the kind of brew Austrians need.
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