Madras Coffee
Topic started by Latha (@ aim-176-26.tm.net.my) on Thu Sep 11 20:43:35 .
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When I was in Chennai recently i fell in love with the coffee. Back home, I have tried making it with a variety of milk n methods but was unable to acquire the same taste. What is the secret to a delicious madras coffee?
Responses:
- From: :) (@ d150-40-7.home.cgocable.net)
on: Thu Sep 11 21:41:18 EDT 2003
"What is the secret to a delicious madras coffee?
"
narasu's coffee powder and the decoction made from it :)
- From: Hemant Trivedi (@ 203.195.208.26)
on: Fri Sep 12 00:27:31 EDT 2003
The cofee powder is boiled in limited supply of air container for a long time till the decoction is thick. This is possible to achieve by using DEGREECOFFEE container.
The flavour of coffee is retained to the maximum .
The flavoursa is released before consumption when the coffee is aerated by AATIFYING from one glass to another.
- From: Ramadas (@ dclient80-218-20-30.hispeed.ch)
on: Fri Sep 12 01:06:23 EDT 2003
That was a nice expression -"aatifying". After that is done it has to be served with the tumbler kept on the right palm, covered with "madisaari pudavai" (so that the palm is not affected by the heat!)
bEsh bEsh, romba nallaa irukkum!
- From: :) (@ d150-40-7.home.cgocable.net)
on: Fri Sep 12 10:44:21 EDT 2003
"That was a nice expression -"aatifying". "
not exactly aatifying, but aaththifying, such coffee is also known as meter coffee :))
"The cofee powder is boiled in limited supply of air container for a long time till the decoction is thick"
I had never seen anyone boil coffee powder.
What I am used to is the decoction where the coffee powder is placed in that decoction utensil and boiling water is poured over it. It seeps through the coffee powder and comes to the second level sottu by sottu. Takes a while. That is the decoction.
You could also make espresso coffee in that espresso thingy that we get in India. Not sure if the Indian espresso thingy and the one we get elsewhere will result in the same type of coffee.
- From: Hemant Trivedi (@ 203.195.208.26)
on: Fri Sep 12 11:09:02 EDT 2003
Smily is right. The coffee powder is placed in upper chamber and boiling water is poured.
Rest is as described by smily.
My son in US uses this utensil but not being a Coffee drinker at any given point in my life, I made the mistake in the process.
Thanks smily.
And yes, what I meant was AAthifying. but mistake in spelling is regretted.
- From: :) (@ d150-40-7.home.cgocable.net)
on: Fri Sep 12 11:24:22 EDT 2003
Dear Hemant,
Nothing to regret, I understood what you might have meant. I was correcting our Ramadas :)
BTW, the coffee is known as meter coffee cos in the coffee shops the guys pour from high above.
"After that is done it has to be served with the tumbler kept on the right palm, covered with "madisaari pudavai" "
Ramdas,
It is madisaar not madisaari. Also we need the tumbler and dabara :) Madisaar is not a requirement, but saree may be. The picture that comes to my mind is Manorama :)
- From: Latha (@ aim-177-146.tm.net.my)
on: Sat Sep 13 11:14:57 EDT 2003
wow!!!! thanx for ur response. Seems like a real complicated process. Looks like i have wait till i go to Chennai to have my coffee again. By the way........what is 'decoction'......sorry if i sound dense........
- From: Ramadas (@ dclient80-218-20-30.hispeed.ch)
on: Sat Sep 13 12:11:40 EDT 2003
Decoction is the English word for any concentrated extraction in liquid form of a substance.
When you go to Chennai, buy the "filter coffee" apparatus, generally available in stainless steel. It consists of two chambers, which are long and cylindrical. The top one fits into the bottom one snugly and there is a lid for the top one. The top one has small holes at the bottom on which the coffee powder is placed and half-filled with hot water. The bottom one collects he decoction after it is left standing for sometime.
- From: Ramadas (@ dclient80-218-20-30.hispeed.ch)
on: Sat Sep 13 12:16:09 EDT 2003
BTW the word decoction is very much used all over Chennai even by street-side tea-shop vendors, without knowing that it is English. They pronounce it as "tick-aa-shun"
- From: R (@ dclient80-218-20-30.hispeed.ch)
on: Sat Sep 13 12:18:05 EDT 2003
http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/decoction
- From: R (@ 26.f8b7d1.client.atlantech.net)
on: Wed Sep 17 12:56:12 EDT 2003
Here's my 2 cents worth on 'degree' coffee
I buy Folgers (big can from Costco) and mix it with 1 box of Chicory (from Giant in an orange and brown box, available at the coffee section. Ask your store manager about it. Famous and easily available in Louisiana). Mix it well. Grind (even pre-ground coffee) in a mixie or coffee/spice grinder and make decoction using a filter from India. Coffee connoisseurs in my family rave about this.
- From: jo (@ ac8d3250.ipt.aol.com)
on: Tue Jul 27 23:58:17
we had a great time reading these series , specially the tee ka shun !
- From: test (@ rich-dsl3-81.greenmountainaccess.net)
on: Wed Jul 28 00:42:23 EDT 2004
test
- From: Andal Balu (@ adsl-223-13-176.aep.bellsouth.net)
on: Wed Jul 28 21:45:59 EDT 2004
If you have Cafe Du Monte in your area, they sell chickory coffee equivalent to Indian coffee.
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