[PW] The stirring of coffee with cinnamon sticks

[John P. Dyson]

Timothy, I'm not certain if this will suffice as an authoritative 
answer, but just in case... In restaurants or coffee bars one leaves 
the soaked cinnamon stick behind along with the dirty china and silver. 
At home though, a stick may be broken into thirds (or smaller pieces) 
and then steeped in more than one cup, then strained out.

John Dyson
Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University


Quoting FERGUSON Timothy <TFERGUSON at goldcoast.qld.gov.au>:

> Colleagues, my client is an avid fan of the Monk television series
> and she says that the detective's wife stirs her coffee with a
> cinnamon stick, a trick learned in Spain, to change its flavour.  The
> client would like more information on this practice, for example, do
> you throw the stick away, or carry it in a little case like a cigar,
> and how often do you replace the stick, and so forth.  We're an
> Australian library service and our collection on Spanish food is,
> well, far weaker than that I assume American libraries are, because
> of the links between Hispanic and Spanish cookery, so I was hoping
> one of you could point me to a good site or book with information on
> this practice.
>
>
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