Coffee/Tea Cigar & Tan Bark Coffee (Substitute)

cigar & tan bark coffee
(from the Georgia Journal and Messenger of Macon, Georgia, October 16, 1861)

Ingredients:

tan bark​

3 old cigar stumps​

a quart of water​

Instructions:

(One of three "Recipes for the Times.")​

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Take tan bark, three parts; three old cigar stumps and a quart of water, mix well, and boil fifteen minutes in a dirty coffee-pot, and the best judges cannot tell it from the finest Mocha.​

(* - Tan bark is the bark of certain species of trees, high in tannins, like an Oak Tree. It is traditionally used for tanning hides into leather.)

 

[donna]

New one for me. I thought I knew about every substitute there was.

 

[Fairfield]

Judging by the probable aroma, I'd say that my grandfather used to stuff it in his pipe!

 

[CivilWarTalk]

New one for me. I thought I knew about every substitute there was.

Did you see the one with the cockroach?

https://civilwartalk.com/threads/ground-peas-cockroach-coffee-substitute.187776/

 

[donna]

That is a different one too. I never knew that one before either. They were desperate for coffee.