support your coffee processing assistant
August 28, 2006 – 2:17 pm
the boss’s porch-grown coffee cherries are now de-muscilageed, or however you say it. mystically patio dried and treated with estate-like reverence, their wilting husk remainders nonetheless prompt this blog to marvel: the pry-with-your-thumb method is for the birds. if opposable thumbs are the ethiopian tool of choice, then theirs must be made of flint. mine are in bleeding tatters.
UPDATE: oh, right. they’ve got “giant wooden mortar-and-pestles” — coffee-adaptable devices with which this blog is not entirely unfamiliar.
3 Responses to “support your coffee processing assistant”
You should try making qishr out of the dried husk – its like tea of sorts. You need plenty of sugar and maybe a little ginger too.
I’ve tried googling recipes in the past but all you get is modern version where they use roasted coffee.
Maybe try roasting the dried flesh too – see what you get, how it smells…
By James Hoffmann on Aug 28, 2006
good idea. i remember reading about it in one my coffee books.
too bad such a topic would be WAY too elementary for your coffeed study group.
By bz on Aug 28, 2006
james:
some lovely qishr was had last eve. will post soon.
By bz on Sep 2, 2006