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You love the great taste of coffee when you get it from your local Starbucks or coffee house, but somehow when you make it at home it's just not the same. Am I right? Well through many years of trying various methods, I believe I have found the best method for making the tastiest coffee in your own home without using expensive coffee machines or milk steamers and with a minimum of fuss. Read on to find your way to coffee heaven!

The Equipment

You will need some equipment, namely a French Press and a coffee grinder. Firstly, for the French Press, if you just want to make one or two coffees in the morning, go for the 3 Cup French Press manufactured by Bodum. You can get one of these for around $15.00. For the coffee grinder, because we are going to be using a French Press it means that the coffee does not need to be ground really finely. This means a relatively inexpensive blade grinder will do the job. You can pick up a Black and Decker or Bodum grinder for between $15.00 to $20.00 and this will be perfectly satisfactory.

Most importantly, for the best taste you will need freshly roasted coffee beans so you can get that fresh ground taste from your coffee. Pre-ground coffee is ok straight from the packet, but it goes off very quickly and there's not really anything you can do about that.

The best place to buy coffee beans is in a specialist coffee store. The beans in these stores are roasted in small batches so that the beans in the store are fresher. You should be able to pick up coffee beans from your local supermarket, however, these are likely to be mass produced and not as good a standard as beans bought from a specialist. They are still good however, and beat any other method of making coffee.

The Method

First things first, you will have to grind the coffee beans.Take your spoon that you will have got with your Bodum French Press and take a generously heaped spoonful of coffee beans. I should also mention at this point that you should find an air tight container for storing your coffee beans (preferably not glass or see-through) and keep it in a cool dry place. Spoon the beans into the top of the grinder, put the lid on then press the button to grind for about thirty seconds. The coffee will now be ground finely enough for your French Press.

Next run your cold tap for about thirty seconds and then fill your kettle with a little over how much water you are going to use for your coffee. Now boil the kettle. Once boiled, quickly pour a small amount of water into your French Press to warm it, then throw this water away. Again, quickly (this should be no more that twenty seconds from the kettle boiling) put your ground coffee into the now warm French Press.

Now pour the water you need on to the coffee. If you are only making coffee for one, only fill the press to roughly a quarter full. What we want is a really strong potent shot of coffee. Now give the mixture a really good stir, place the top on the press (don't plunge it yet) and leave to settle.

Now for your milk, take the cup you are going to use and fill to a half cup of milk. Now you have two choices. Either heat the milk for two minutes on 600 watts in your microwave, or use a milk pan on your stove. Each way is fine, although you may get tastier milk from the stove method.

For the stove method, turn the heat off just as the milk is starting to bubble up. This should also roughly take two minutes. If you made your milk on the stove, pour it into your cup now.

So your coffee should have been sitting for approximately three minutes now. I give it four minutes to be on the safe side, then press the plunger, and leave for another thirty seconds to settle. While you are waiting, add sugar to the milk if required. Now pour your coffee into your milk and stir well. You should now have a very tasty and frothy cup of coffee, just as good as if you had bought it in your local coffee shop. Enjoy.

Dave Bett is a freelance writer and coffee enthusiast. Visit his website Coffee Pods Guide which gives an overview of coffee pod machines and how to use them.

Sunday Morning Coffee Cake from the "McCalls Great American Recipes" cards - Does anyone have the recipe?

It is one of the best recipes for coffee cake and my son absolutely loves it. I would really appreciate if someone would e-mail me the recipe!!! Thanks!

Sunday Special Coffee Cake
----- Original Message -----
From: Carolann
To: phaedrus
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 4:53 PM
Subject: coffee cake

Looking for a recipe from McCalls recipe collection from 1973.
Called Sunday Special Coffee Cake.

Hello Carol Ann,

See below.

Phaed

Sunday Special Coffee Cake

1/2 c Plus 3/4 c sugar
1/4 c Plus 1 1/2 c flour
1/4 c Plus 1/3 c butter, melted
1 ts Cinnamon
2 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
1 ea Egg white
1/2 c Skim Milk
1 ts Vanilla

Combine 1/2 c sugar, 1/4 c flour, 1/4 c butter, and cinnamon.
Mix lightly with a fork until crumbly. Set aside for topping.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees; grease 8" square pan.

Sift 1 1/2 c flour, baking powder and salt.

In a medium bowl, beat egg white with a rotary beater until frothy.
Beat in 3/4 sugar and 1/3 c melted butter until well combined.
Add milk and vanilla.

With a wooden spoon, beat in flour mixture until well combined;
pour into pan.

Sprinkle topping evenly over batter.

Bake 25-30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes
out clean.

Cool partially in pan or on a wire rack. Cut into squares while
still warm.

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