Coffee Recipes

Coffee Recipes by Caribbean Traditions.

Recipes of your grandmother? How about the recipe of the old Creole lady? Is it by using these wonderful potions the Creole of Josephine, born on a neighboring island, tempted the Napoleon and inspired to feats?

"Creole Coffee"

This coffee is peculiar to Dominica. The coffee is grown on the island and is produced by a drip method, the pot being essentially of French origin.

• This coffee is peculiar to Dominica. The coffee is grown on the island and is produced by a drip method, the pot being essentially of French origin.
• 1 cup boiling water.
• 2 teaspoons sugar.

Coffee method:
Place coffee in pot and put water in a saucepan over heat and bring it to a boil. Pour the boiling water in very small quantities over coffee from time to time, leaving it to drip through. Continue this until you have made the required quantity. Heat up coffee, but do not boil. Sweeten and serve hot.

"Calypso Coffee"

• 1 pot brewed or drip coffee,
• 1 stick cinnamon (3,81 sm),
• 1 dessert spoon ground cinnamon,
• 1 cup whipping cream,
• 6 teaspoons sugar,
• 6 stem glasses,
• 3 jiggers Sugar Cane Brandy - this rum produced by one of the most old companies on the Barbados - Mount Gay Distilleries Ltd., which started to produce rum in 1703. Productions of the company is closely associated with sailing, when sailors returned home with a barrel of Mount Gay in order to prove that they had reached Barbados - considered one of the most difficult islands in the Caribbean to reach. Mount Gay Sugar Cane Brandy, a careful blend of specially selected rums of age up to seven years, is a fine product whose link with the sugar cane of Barbados is proudly reflected in its character.

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Prepare glasses by pouring half a jigger of Sugar Cane Brandy in each glass. Add one spoonful sugar in each glass. In the meantime, brew coffee or make a pot of drip coffee and allow cinnamon stick to soak in coffee for at least 10 minutes while brewing. Then fill each glass with coffee, allowing for whipped cream topping. Stir coffee to dissolve sugar. Then add a spoonful of whipped cream to top each glass. Sprinkle with a pinch of ground cinnamon and serve immediately.

"Planter's Coffee"

• 2-4 cups coffee,
• 2-4 teaspoons sugar,
• 2-4 jiggers Tia Maria is a "liqueur spirit" which is made in Jamaica. The main flavor ingredients are coffee beans, cane spirit, vanilla, and sugar, fermented to an alcoholic content of 26.5%

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Prepare cups for coffee and brew coffee. Then pour coffee into cup, add 1 jigger Tia Maria per cup and 1 teaspoon sugar. Stir well and serve hot.

"Tropical Outburst"

• 1 pot brewed or drip coffee
• 1 cup whipping cream
• 6 teaspoons Demerara sugar (freshly ground) - it's type of specialty raw cane sugar, normally brown in color.
• 1 dessert spoon ground nutmeg
• 6 stem glasses
• 6 jiggers Rumona liqueur. It's a Jamaica's superb rum-based liqueur. Made with rum and a selection of secret ingredients. The only problem with Rumona Rum Liqueur, is that it may be hard to find. It is rarely exported and when you do find it, it is in limited quantities.

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Prepare glasses by pouring a jigger of Rumona liqueur in each and adding one spoonful of sugar. Stir until dissolved. In the meantime, prepare coffee Pour into each glass freshly brewed coffee. Top with whipped cream and sprinkle each with a pinch of ground nutmeg.

"Colonial Coffee"

• 4 cups brewed coffee
• 2 jiggers cognac
• 4 teaspoons sugar cane sugar

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Prepare four coffee cups by pouring half a jigger of cognac in each and one teaspoon sugar cane sugar. Then add hot strong brewed or drip coffee. Serve immediately hot.

"Coffee Sting"

• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1/2 cup coffee
• 1 jigger brandy
• whipped cream

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Place sugar in cup. Add coffee and brandy. Place coffee in heat resistant container and heat for about 3 minutes. Pour into glasses and place spoonful of whipped cream on top. Serve immediately.

"Iced Coffee"

This recipe is the secret of the one Dominica woman. She developed it for ladies attending cocktail parties, where no meal is served and this could eliminate dinner at home for the official's wives.

• 2 tins condensed milk
• 2 tins evaporated milk
• 2 cups very strong coffee (brewed or instant)

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Combine condensed milk, evaporated milk and coffee. Freeze 2 cups of mixture in ice-tray and chill balance in bottle or jar. When well chilled serve into glasses two-thirds full, adding a scoop of the frozen mixture to each glass before serving.

"South Pacific Cofka"

• 2 cups water
• 4 cups sugar
• 2 ozs. instant coffee
• 1 vanilla bean (dried)
• 4 cups vodka
• light cream

Method of preparing a coffee beverage:
Combine water, sugar and coffee in Pyrex or Corningware dish. Place on low heat and stir for about 6 minutes until sugar and coffee are dissolved. Allow to cool for about one hour. Add vodka and stir well setting aside. Then cut vanilla bean in half lengthwise. Put bean into large bottle (half gallon size) and pour mixture into bottle. Place cap on bottle and put away for about 30 days. Then combine some of the mixture and ice cubes in blender and blend for about 2 minutes. Serve immediately.

If you want to enjoy the real taste of exotic recipes, then stick not only to methods of preparing life-giving drink, but also use the original Caribbean ingredients. One of the main is the coffee, grown on the fertile volcanic slopes in altitudes above 1,500 ft., in the lush tropical rainforest of Dominica.