At  9/13/2006 09:01 PM, Jim Felder wrote:

>Remember the percolator recipe (the one my mom taught me, anyway):
>one teaspoon per cup, then one for the pot. Judge the readiness by
>the brown color of the perk in the clear top piece. Three-quarters of
>a minute usually does it for me, a full minute or more on hangover
>mornings.
>
>
>Jim

That would have been good to know last month when I broke out the new
percolator I put in my bus. I guess I perked it a bit too long but it
was coffee. The next day I didn't have a lot left so I made 'cowboy'
coffee, tossed the remaining grounds into the boiling water, let it
boil a bit then took it off the heat and added half a cup of cold
water to settle the grounds. It worked!
My single serving coffee bags were in the backpack I didn't bring.

Over the years, from time to time having a coffee pot and a stove in
the bus has been real good luck. It was one of the first things I put
under the seat when I got this VW. It's the same stove I kept in my
'59 back in the early 70's.

Perked coffee does taste good when I'm camping!

Rob
becida@comcast.net

With a '91 Subaru 2.2 in an '87 Vanagon in western Washington.