Recipes from around the world

African coffee
Prepare as many coffee cups as there are guests and add a ball of chocolate ice cream and a little pourning cream. The drink must be served nice and icy.

American coffee
In a jug mix together two teaspoons of sugar, two of cocoa and two of coffee powder together with a cup of sightly salted water. Bring to the boll for two or three minutes then add two cups of warm milk and one of warm water and bring back to the boll.
Finally, to improve the flavour, stir in two teaspoons of powdered vanilla.

Creole coffee
Add a small pinch of grated nutmeg to a cup of coffee along with a clove, a small piece of cinnamon stick and a tiny piece of vanilla.

Irish coffee
Dose for one person: a cup of very strong coffee, two teaspoons of sugar, a small glass of irish whisky, a dessertspoon of whipped cream.
Put the sugar into a glass and dissolve it using a small quantity of the hot coffee. Then add the whisky and the remaining coffee, still boiling hot and finally top it all with a large spoonful of pouring cream or, as an alternative, float a spoonful of whipped cream on top, pouring it carefully to prevent the ingredients from mixing together.

Danish coffee
The coffee is prepared as for Irish coffee, but acquavite is used indtead of whisky.


Prepare coffee and hot chocolate, both nice and hot. Mix togrther equal parts of both and sugar to taste before serving.

Dutch coffee
Prepare the same recipe as for Irish Coffee, replacing the whisky with Dutch juniper brandy.

Parisian coffee
Make a strong coffee and while is still hot add aome boiling chocolate (two parts coffee to one part cocoa); add some cognac (two teaspoons for each cup), stir and serve in a heated jug. The drink should be served with wipped cream an sugar.

Russian coffee
Prepare a small cup of very strong, very hot coffee, sugar to taste while it is still hot and add a small glass of vodka.
Put it into a glass and pour cream on top to taste.
In summer crushed ice mady be added as wella as the pouring cream; stir well and drink.

Turkish coffee with honey
Pour a cup of hot water, two spoonfuls of honey and two of sesame sedds into a jug (the seeds can be bought at the groceris) and boll over a low flame. Then add 6 teaspoons of extremely fine coffee powder, like they use in the east, mixing well; serve in small cups.

Valdostano coffee or cogneintze coffee.
In the typical grolla (wooden container with lid) pour and mix coffee, grappa, red wine and sugar; then add lemon zest. The quantity of the ingredients depends on the number of people.

Turkish coffee
Use a brass Turkish coffee grinder to obtain a really fine powder; these objects can easily be found in shops nowadays. if not available, use an alectric coffee grinder to powder the beans and then sleve the ground coffee. For each person, pour a small cup of water, two teaspoons of coffee and two of sugar into a special Turkish coffee pot (a copper jug with a wide base, narrow neck and long handle). After having stirred well, put the mixture to boil over a low flame; when it boils it will rise up and a dense creamy froth will form on top, remove from the heat until the rich cream disappears.
Repeat this procedure three times and then take it off the heat completely.
Now, as if it were a ritual, share out a part of the dense froth into each of the guests' cups, then slowly add the remaining coffee and the Kaimtk or thick froth will come to the top. The drink must never be stirred in the cup. Before offering to friends, make the kaimtk disappear again into the bottom of the cup by delicately pouring a couple of drops of cold water on top it.
Now this superlative flavoursome drink is ready.