On the excellent qualities of coffee, and the art of making it in the highest perfection / [Benjamin Rumford].

  • Rumford, Benjamin, Graf von, 1753-1814
Date:
1812]
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Credit: On the excellent qualities of coffee, and the art of making it in the highest perfection / [Benjamin Rumford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    water enough to furniffi what is required for making the Coffee, as well as that which is neceiTary for generating fleam, for keeping the Coffee hot. The water defcends below the foot of the urn into the flat plinth, on which it flands, and to which it is united. The figure 5. reprefents an urn with two long fpouts, which ferve at the fame time as handles. Its fize is fuch as would be proper for making either one or two cups of Coffee. The (trainer, which is reprefented by dotted lines, is of a proper fize for making two cups. Both thefe urns are deflined to be heated over fpirit lamps, or fmall portable furnaces. It is hardly neceffary that I fhould obferve, that in cafe the forms of either of thefe urns fhould be thought inelegant, their fizes may, without any difficulty, be confiderably augmented ; but when fpouts are ufed with large urns, they occafion a good deal of inconvenience. As Coffee is very wholefome, and may be afforded at a very low price, efpecially in countries which have colonies where the climate is proper for grow¬ ing it, many public advantages would be derived from the general introdudion of it among all claffes of fociety. One mod important advantage, which, on a fu- perficial view of the fubjed, is not very obvious, would mod probably be derived from it. As Coffee poffeffes, in a high degree, an exhilarating quality, it