All About Coffee by William H. Ukers

Author:William H. Ukers [William H. Ukers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4405-5632-6
Publisher: F+W Media
Published: 2012-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

One of the first immediate supplies General Sherman desired from Wilmington, on reaching Fayetteville and lines of communication in March, 1865, was, expressly, coffee. He says so himself, in the second volume of his memoirs. Still more expressly, toward the close of his memoirs, and among final recommendations, the fruit of his experiences in that whole vast war, General Sherman says this for coffee:

Coffee has become almost indispensable, though many substitutes were found for it, such as Indian corn, roasted, ground and boiled as coffee, the sweet potato, and the seed of the okra plant prepared in the same way. All these were used by the people of the South, who for years could procure no coffee, but I noticed that the women always begged of us real coffee, which seemed to satisfy a natural yearning or craving more powerful than can be accounted for on the theory of habit. Therefore I would always advise that the coffee and sugar ration be carried along, even at the expense of bread, for which there are many substitutes.

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