by bruceb » Tue Nov 10, 2009 10:40 pm
It's the national coffee drink of Brazil and means "little coffee." You can dissolve sugar in water, bring to a boil, add a heaped desert spoon of finely ground coffee per demitasse, stir and filter through a cloth or paper filter. Cloth coffee filters are available in lots of "Third World" shops, but paper is getting more common in Brazil, I believe.
There are other ways of making it, but it always is very strong and sweet. Unrefined brown sugar is preferred.
The drink is always served in tiny cups, a bit smaller than espresso cups and in Brazil there are little, gaudy spoons used to stir it, often decorated with artificial gems or cut glass.
Three Francesconi (CMA) espresso machines - Rossi, San Marco, LaCimbali, Faema and 2 Mazzer Major grinders- CoffeeTech Maggionlino, Hottop, Alpenröst and HW Precision roasters. I decided I needed a bit of a change so I roasted some Monsooned Malabar. That was a change!