Jan 28, 2011

Indian filter coffee 2

The resulting brew is very powerful, and is traditionally used by the addition of 1-2 tablespoons to a cup of warm milk consumed by the desired amount of sugar. The coffee is drunk from the glass (although a word of English origin, it seems the most common name for this ship), but often only with a cooled dabarah - "dabarah" (in some regions as "very davarah '): a wide metal saucer with lipped walls.

Coffee is usually after the casting back and forth between the rocker arm and the dabarah served in large arcuate movements of the hand. This serves several purposes: Mix the ingredients (including sugar), the cooling of the hot coffee in order to benefit from a temperature, and most importantly, aeration of the mixture, without any additional (using, for example, with a steam pipe for the foaming cappuccino) water. A anecdote related to the distance between the casting and the result of the cup of coffee other name "coffee-meter".

Culture
Coffee is something of a cultural icon in Andhra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. It is customary to offer a cup of coffee for every visitor. Coffee was originally Baba booths to South India in the 16th Century introduced and became very popular among the British rule. By the middle of the 20th century traditional households do not use of the granulated sugar, cane sugar or honey used but, in place of the coffee.

History
The popular Indian tradition says that on pilgrimage to Mecca in the 16th Century, Baba Budan, a revered Muslim holy man from India, discovered for himself the wonders of coffee. In his zeal for what he had to share with his fellow man found at home, he smuggled seven coffee beans from the Yemeni port of Mocha, around the abdomen. After his return he settled on the slopes of the Chandragiri hill in Kadur District, Mysore State (now Karnataka). This ridge was later named after him as Baba Budan Hills, and his grave can be seen today is a short drive from Chikmagalur.