How to Brew a Civil War Coffee With a Recipe That Uses Sweet Potatoes and Rye
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#6PGRS)
Max MillerofTasting Historyprepareda Confederate coffee recipe from the Civil War that employed sweet potatoes and rye in place of beans. Likeprevious videos, as the ingredients were drying out to be ground, Miller talked about the history of coffee within the context of the historic war.
Other than shoes and bullets nothing was moreimportant to a Civil War soldier than coffee. Now the North and South love the stuff butthe Confederates definitely had a harder timegetting their hands on it so they came up withalternatives like this rye and sweet potato coffee.
View this post on InstagramA post shared by Tasting History with Max (@tastinghistorywithmaxmiller)