Best Coffee Recipes for All Coffee LoversWe will feature various coffee recipes including coffee dessert recipes, drink recipes and maybe some unique cooking coffee recipes. A little bit on coffee history. "Coffee" is taken from the Latin word "Coffea" which is a name for a genus of trees. As it contains a high dose of caffeine and various alkaloids, it is like an aphrodisiac which is why you feel energetic after a coffee drink. According to Arabic legend, an Arabian goat herder was going about his daily activities. Suddenly, his flock of goats started to dance around a green leafy plant with cherries growing from it. Curious, he sampled the plant. He then started to experience a stimulating effect which he can stay awake for hours. He began to share this secret with others. From thereon, the use of coffee spread as a favorite "pick-me-up" drink. An interesting note here, do you know that before 1500s, the priests believed that coffee was a drink of the devil! Pope Clement VIII quashed that. He took a sip of the coffee and gave it his blessing!
One of the two main species (coffee types) of the coffee plant - “Coffea Arabica,” implying that it came from the Arabian Peninsula, but it is indigenous in Ethiopia. Arabica maybe more prone to disease but coffee lovers found it to be more flavorful than “coffea canephora” (robusta), which holds twice as much caffeine. Robusta is a natural insecticide and stimulant, growing in places where Arabica cannot. Hence, Robusta is used as an inexpensive substitute for Arabica in commercial coffee blends and in almost all instant coffee products. Robusta is more bitter, with a burnt-rubber smell and taste and are used in espresso blends for a foamy effect. In fact, Italian espresso blends are made from dark-roasted Robusta.
Some blend varieties are so popular and in demand that they are more expensive, for example the Jamaican Blue Mountain and the Hawaiian Kona coffees. These beans are mixed with other, less-expensive varieties and that's how the term blend is added to the label, such as “Blue Mountain Blend” or “Kona Blend”. And do you know - the world's most expensive coffee - kopi luwak! These days, we see coffee houses opening all over the world catering to everyone's demands. Now, we have coffee candies, coffee creamers, coffee syrup etc. Check out delicious coffee recipes here: Coffee Cakes : Coffee Drinks : |
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