"COFFEE-TEA."

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 708, 30 September 1914, Page 3

"COFFEE-TEA."

"Coffee-tea" sounds as though, it might he some concoction made from > tea and coffee, but in reality there is no tea in it. Nor are there any coffee berries in it. It jig made solely from the leaves of bush. As everyone knows, tea is made from the leaves of the tea plant, and coffee is from the ground berries of the coffee plant. But the fact that a beverage of many merits is made from steeping the coffee leaves just as tea leaves are steeped led to the name of "coffee-tea." This drink may never become popular, but there are many advantages claimed for it. In the first place, it is said to be far less harmful than either tea or coffee. It contains scarcely any caffein, •which is said to be that portion of coffee that lessens efficiency if taken in too great quantities. At the same time the coffee leaves contain nearly as much them as real tea and far less tannin, the tannin being tho objectionable part of tea. Coffee-tea is made the same as tea. The dried leaves resemble tea to a remarkable degree. An infusion of the leaves is made just as with tea, and a notable aromatic beverage results. It must be admitted that it is bitter, j far more' bitter than either strong oof- j fee or strong tea, but people who have tried it for a while claim they get used to it and like it better than either straight tea or coffee. It has been suggested that this cof-fee-tea, while by no means quite so agreeable to the taste educated by genuine tea and coffee to those not used to it, may become an important article of diet, since it is really -wonderfully refreshing and restorative in its effects, and it is also believed that people who are unable to drink ordinary tea or coffee might get used to it.