BBC NEWS | Politics | Queen receives gift from Cabinet (#)
„Lord Callaghan told the programme: "He said, 'Do you know, you'll hardly believe this, but there is only one coffee pot at Windsor that will serve twelve cups of coffee, and so when we go to Balmoral we have to wrap it up in a bit of newspaper and take it with us. "So Audrey, my wife, bought a very nice silver coffee pot that served twelve cups of coffee." The Queen asked all the Cabinet to the palace for the presentation of the gift and later had their names engraved on the coffee pot.“
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BBC - Gardening - Design - Make a mosaic pot
„4 Build up the bottom triangles around the entire pot first, leaving small gaps between each tile, then add all the upper triangles in the space between the lower triangles. Take care that all the rows align horizontally.“
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BBC - h2g2 - Ways to Make Good Coffee
„They should always be used to make a full pot as they do not operate well when half full. After making a pot, you must wait a few minutes for the pot to cool down before you can use it again, so they are not really suitable for making large amounts of espresso.“
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„And that's why the American habit of bringing a teacup, a tea bag and a pot of hot water to the table is merely the perfect way of making a thin, pale, watery cup of tea that nobody in their right mind would want to drink. The Americans are all mystified about why the English make such a big thing out of tea because most Americans have never had a good cup of tea. That's why they don't understand. In fact the truth of the matter is that most English people don't know how to make tea any more either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.“
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BBC News | SCI/TECH | Cult coffee machine sold
„The researchers decided to attach a camera to it and broadcast its pictures on the net, so that anyone looking at the images would know whether making the trip to the pot was worthwhile. Sold: The final webcam image The percolator soon acquired cult status, with hundreds of thousands of people logging on to watch it on one of the first ever web-cam broadcasts. The Cambridge computer department decided to sell the broken old pot because it is moving to new labs and the students want a new coffee-maker. "Time moves on and we want to buy a shiny new espresso machine," the students wrote in their offering on auction site eBay.“
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BBC - History - Elisabeth Dakin (c.1848)
„Once roasted and ground the coffee is ready for brewing. The simplest method in the 19th century was to pour hot water into a pot with coffee grinds. The problem was separating the coffee grinds from the liquid coffee. Elisabeth Dakin took a standard coffeepot and put a perforated cylinder - similar to a sieve - in the middle, into which she put a plunger on a screw thread.“
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