How It Used To Be
Since we did not have things like dvds and video games, watching coffee perk was fascinating.And then, Mom would pour the coffee into a cup, stir in some evaporated milk from a can, some sugar….take a sip…. and… Oh GLORY! She would head off to do something and leave the coffee on the counter.
It was a matter of time. I would head up to make my bed or whatever and thirty minutes later, when I came back into the kitchen the coffee would be room temperature and ready to drink as far as I was concerned.
Never enough to make a noticeable difference in the level of the rapidly chilling brew, but enough to know that I preferred my mom’s cold coffee to my dad’s martini olives hands down.
As I was cleaning the pantry the other day I came across the coffee pot. No cords. No gadgets. No touch-pad. Just the brutal honesty of stainless steel “guts” and smooth exterior…and of course, the clear knob on top.
Later I am going to make some 1960’s style coffee. I am going to listen to the sound of the coffee pot and smell the aroma as it begins to waft through my kitchen. I am going to get my mom’s old, Stuckey’s Coffee Club mug (these things are selling for like 100.00 each on ebay!) and pour some coffee. It may be that I find that my tastes have changed and matured…..and then again it may taste just as good as it used to.
So..what are the memories that you have associated with coffee?
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6 opinions for How It Used To Be
Betsy
Jan 8, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Neat! I would like to try it that way. My grandma had one like that and used it up until her death of 5 years ago. I remember we had dishes with the blue flower design.
One of my memories growing up was putting sugar in my coffee and it just wasn’t tasting right, so I kept putting it in. Come to find out I was putting salt in it. :) I was probably only 7. My parents are hardcore coffee drinkers and they raised 3 dd they same way.
Marye
Jan 8, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Betsy..EWWW salt? LOL!
Julie F
Jan 9, 2008 at 9:58 am
I love perked coffee. I keep promising to post a picture of my maker on my blog, but it is, um…a bit dirty at the moment. It needs to be gleaming, but with 5 coffee drinkers who drink it all day in the house, it gets the outside polished once a month. Regular pots are so nasty, such a burned taste. I love the picture, Marye, reminds me of my grandmother.
Marye
Jan 9, 2008 at 10:52 am
That is actually not an electric perculator. It is a stove top kind.
You know my aunt used to have a pot going all day long…
sigh. :)
Julie F
Jan 9, 2008 at 11:11 am
I’d love to find one of those.
Marye
Jan 9, 2008 at 12:23 pm
ebay….this was my mom’s..but ebay, rubylane & several others have them
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