Anything warm will do
I myself prefer warm broth or even
ramen when I want to warm my bones and get my morale back up.
But there is also Cowboy coffee, and
here's one recipe.
Cowboy Coffee
Out on the trail, coffee was a
staple among cowboys. Piping hot coffee helped a cowboy shake off the stiffness
from sleeping on the hard desert ground, and it was also a good beverage to
wash down the morning sour dough biscuits. But cowboys didn’t have the luxury
of fancy coffee brewers or French presses. They had to pack light, so all they
usually had was a metal coffee pot, sans filter, to brew their coffee in. No
matter. A cowboy could still make a decent cup of coffee. Here’s how.
- Bring water to a near boil over your campfire.
- Throw your coffee grounds right into the water. That’s
right. Filters are for city slickers.
- Stir the coffee over the fire for a minute or two.
- Remove the pot from the fire and let the coffee sit for
a minute or two to allow the grounds to settle at the bottom of the pot.
Add a bit of cold water to help speed along the settling process.
- Carefully pour the coffee into your tin cup so that the
grounds stay in the pot.
- Stand around the fire with your left thumb in your belt
loop and your coffee cup in your right hand. Take slow sips and meditate
on the trek ahead.
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