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Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 |

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Last Updated ( Saturday, 06 March 2010 04:57 )

Pumpkin Coffee Cake

Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 |

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Ingredient

Imperial

75 ml	shortening	1/3 cup
325 ml	brown sugar	1 1/3 cup
1	egg	1
250 ml	cooked or canned pumpkin	1 cup
425 ml	cake flour	1 2/3 cup
1 ml	baking powder	1/4 tsp
5 ml	baking soda	1 tsp
1 ml	salt	1/4 tsp
2 ml	cinnamon	1/2 tsp
2 ml	nutmeg	1/2 tsp
1 ml	ground cloves	1/4 tsp
75 ml	buttermilk	1/3 cup
1	medium apple, peeled & chopped	1
75 ml	walnuts or pecans, chopped	1/3 cup
-	CREAM CHEESE ICING	-
125 g	cream cheese	4 oz
75 ml	butter	1/3 cup
2 ml	almond extract	1/2 tsp
500 ml	icing sugar	2 cup

Cream together shortening and sugar. Beat in egg and pumpkin. Sift together dry ingredients and add to pumpkin mixture alternately

with buttermilk. Stir in chopped apple and nuts. Pat into a greased and floured tube cake pan. Bake in preheated 350 F (180 C) oven fo

r about 40 to 50 minutes. Invert and cool on rack. Ice with Cream Cheese Icing.

CREAM CHEESE ICING: Beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Add almond extract and icing sugar. Beat until smooth.

Serves 8

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 02 March 2010 22:25 )

Automatic Espresso Machine

Wednesday, 20 August 2008 10:11 |

By: Magne Bjorklund

Automatic espresso machines are available for either home or commercial use. If you are considering using an

espresso machine that is not automated or that is not going to make that drink for you, you could be in the

kitchen, making drinks while your guests are getting a little bored. An automatic espresso machine is one that

will cost anywhere from $400 and up, but it is well worth the money when you consider all the time that you

are going to save in the kitchen. Your automatic espresso machine is one that will give you benefits again and

again.

The automatic espresso machine is one that is going to grind the coffee for you. If you are grinding your own

coffee all the time, and then putting it in your espresso machine you will notice that it can be a lot of

work. It can be messy when you are trying to talk with your family and guests, and you really just don’t have

time to grind coffee while you are trying to entertain. Grinding your own coffee is the best way to get the

very best tasting espresso drinks, but the automatic espresso machine is going to do this for you. All you

have to do is measure the coffee you want to grind and it will take over all the work from there!

For the home or the office, an automatic espresso machine is one that will provide the ultimate results so

you, and everyone else can get back to what ever else you were doing. In the workplace, giving those small

added benefits such as a great cup of coffee or a latte early in the morning is going to boost moral and going

to keep people working as they aren’t focused on wishing they had a good cup of coffee right now.

The fully automatic espresso machine is one that will grind the coffee, that will dose and tamp the coffee to

your liking and then it will brew your drinks and dispense the drinks in a manner that is easy to handle and

that is virtually hassle free for you. Automatic espresso machines are great when you are entertaining,

throwing a party, when you are too busy to do it yourself, when you wish you had a maid to do it for you, and

just because you are working hard at doing other things in the house all the time, but deserve and want a

great cup of coffee.

The brewing units that are automatic are designed to give you the ultimate experience in coffee drinking

allowing you to make all types of coffee drinks that you can enjoy again and again. All you have to do is

measure the ingredients, add the water, and then after you are finished enjoying your favorite coffee drink,

you empty the grinds and fill it up again for next time. The frothing attachment is one that you are going to

wonder how you ever did without! Clean up is just as easy as it is for any other type of coffee maker, but an

automatic espresso machine does so much more!

Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 February 2010 17:51 )

Coffee Maker Cleaning

Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 |

By: Anthony Tripodi

Your coffee maker could be killing you. Well it is if your morning cup of coffee is a matter of life and death

and you have a filthy coffee maker. When was the last time you cleaned your coffee maker? Washing the pot is

important but getting the internal components of a coffee maker clean is a task that shouldn’t be skipped. Did

you even know that you were supposed to clean it? A clean coffee maker can be the difference between a good

cup of coffee and a nasty cup of sludge.

A clean coffee maker really makes a big difference in how your coffee tastes. Left over coffee oils can

accumulate inside your coffee maker and become rancid. And mineral deposits can form too, especially in areas

with hard water. These deposits are called “scale”. There are two kinds of scale, lime scale and mineral scale

and you don’t want either one. Scale can affect the heating unit and the water flow of your coffee maker and

reduce it’s efficiency. How quickly scale forms depends on the quality of your drinking water. If you use

bottled water to make your coffee, scale probably won’t form as fast but you still have to worry about

accumulated coffee oils. Better to play it safe and clean your coffee maker regularly.

Cleaning your coffee maker is not a hard task to accomplice. At least once a month pour a mixture of half

vinegar and half water into your coffee maker. It goes without saying that white vinegar should be used. Steer

clear of the red wine or apple cider vinegar varieties. Run through the full brew process. You’re kitchen will

probably have a nice salad smell while it’s brewing which you may even like. If you’re not a salad fan though,

just remember that it’s a small price to pay for a good cup of coffee.

Repeat the process again using only water this time to rinse it out. Do this one more time if a vinegar smell

is still present.

Another easy way to keep the coffee maker clean is to put a glass marble in the water chamber. All the mineral

deposits that would usually accumulate inside the coffee maker will instead accumulate on the marble. Every

once in a while just remove the marble, wash it and then place it back in the chamber. How much easier could

that be?

The best solution would be to clean your coffee maker with vinegar monthly while also using the marble method.

Change the marble once a week and you’re coffee maker will be in great shape.

If you have an old coffee maker and you aren’t happy with the taste of it’s brew, why not try cleaning it. A

clean coffee maker will brew better tasting coffee.
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Anthony Tripodi is the webmaster of EndlessCoffeeBreak.com - The Guide To Coffee. For more information about

How To Clean A Coffee Maker and other coffee making tips, visit http://www.endlesscoffeebreak.com

Last Updated ( Saturday, 27 February 2010 18:18 )

Did You Know?

Monday, 11 August 2008 01:12 |

Did You Know?

People who buy coffee primarily at drive through windows on their way to work will spend as much as 45 hours a year waiting in line.

Did You Know?

Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum. World wide coffee production tips the scales at about 6 million metric tonnes.

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 March 2010 00:31 )

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