What Do You Add To Coffee ?

[valley ranch]

Turks~ the invading nomads spread our cooking and all else through out the captured land``` You're right it may have been cardamon```

 

[ninnymary]

That's the way I always drank it until I tried the flavored creamer. Too much sugar and it ruined it for me.

Annette

That half a teaspoon makes a difference for me. More than that and it's too sweet.

Mary

 

[Nyboy]

Mary have you tried stevia ? It is much sweeter then sugar so you use less

 

[ninnymary]

Mary have you tried stevia ? It is much sweeter then sugar so you use less

I did once. I could taste a funny metalic taste so didn't like it. I actually use raw brown cane sugar.

Mary

 

[digitS']

Sugar alone would ruin coffee for me.

Maybe it's the bitter and sweet without smoothing it out with creamer or cream. Things are often too sweet for me. Really, I don't need anything added and sometimes don't appreciate additions.

@Zeedman , may we suspect that you like ginseng in your coffee?

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

I like the bitterness of coffee. Do like to mellow it out some with cream.

 

[Zeedman]

I did once. I could taste a funny metalic taste so didn't like it. I actually use raw brown cane sugar.

Mary

I too found the flavor of stevia to be unpleasant. Monk fruit sweetener - if you can find it - tastes more like real sugar.

@Zeedman , may we suspect that you like ginseng in your coffee?

Steve

Although ginseng is one of the herbs in that Oriental coffee, I'm not a fan of ginseng per se. Don't like that earthy, "off" flavor. Can't really taste it in the coffee, though.

I suppose that when you get down to it, additives are often used because we've become accustomed to drinking poor quality coffee, and don't know any better.

 

[digitS']

@Zeedman , I'll say a little about ginseng ... and it's not about any supposed aphrodisiac qualities.

First caffeine - I hardly notice that it is a stimulant. Caffeinated coffee. It will keep me from being sleepy in the evening but it isn't real apparent to me why. I don't feel jittery. Daytime, I feel a little more cheerful after coffee. And, it does seem to bother the stomach so I need to have caffeinated coffee only in moderation.

Ginseng - winds me up! I really would not want it in excess. In fact, I would not want it daily - special occasions, maybe. The flavor is not very appealing. Ginseng and me ... with some hesitation ...

Steve

 

[buckabucka]

I love my morning cup of coffee. No sweetener or flavors, but I hate it without my half and half. I tried to switch to lowfat milk, but just did not enjoy it.
After noon, I switch to tea.

 

[seedcorn]

Caffeine in any form, late at night wires me. Not so much in AM.