The Coffee Page

"Coffee has also become almost indispensable, though

many substitutes were found for it, such as Indian-corn, roasted,

ground, and boiled as coffee; the sweet-potato, and the seed of the

okra plant prepared in the same way. All these were used by the

people of the South, who for years could procure no coffee, but I

noticed that the women always begged of us some real coffee, which

seems to satisfy a natural yearning or craving more powerful than

can be accounted for on the theory of habit."

Sherman reported that his soldiers each drank five pints of coffee

per day when they were in camp.

I have tried the okra thing, and if you add sugar it tastes a little like Coca-Cola

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