Episode 17 - Mexican Cinnamon Coffee

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Episode 17! We paired coffee and cinnamon for this episode, and added a little sugar. It's called Cafe Del Olla. Check out the video for more on this fun coffee experiment.

Recipe:
  • Coffee
  • Cinnamon Stick
  • Piloncillo (to taste)
Piloncillo is a Mexican sugar. You can sometimes find it at Hispanic groceries or the Mexican food area at a regular grocery. We couldn't track any down, so we just subbed regular brown sugar. As always with sugar, a little goes a long way. You might also want to try 2 cinnamon sticks depending on how much coffee you're making.

Toss the cinnamon stick and sugar in with the coffee and bring it to a boil, then use it to make your coffee using your preferred method. I recommend a pour-over.

Leuke's Thoughts: 

★★★☆☆ 

Where's the flavor?! This wasn't cinnamon-y enough for me. It certainly wasn't bad, but I wanted more from the cinnamon. Cinnamon sticks are expensive, too, so this isn't the easiest recipe to experiment with. If I ever try this one again, it would be with ground cinnamon.

 Chad's Thoughts:

★★★☆☆ 

The cinnamon was pretty good, I'm just not much of a cinnamon person.


Trivia: 

They’re cranking out the coffee down in Mexico. Our neighbor to the south is one of the world’s largest suppliers of coffee beans, including 60% of all organic coffee. It’s mostly grown in the states Chiapas and Oaxaca. Coffee (naturally) is a very profitable crop, and something like half a million farmers and their families are dependent on the delicious crop to make money.

Tune in next week for Sesame Seed Coffee!

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