{"product_id":"2940148795384","title":"Cakes \u0026 Ale (Illustrated)","description":"• The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 15 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content.\u003cbr\u003e• The Coffee-Tree, which, when roasted, ground, and mixed with water, and unmixed with horse-beans, dandelion-root, or road-scrapings, forms a most agreeable beverage to those who can digest it, was not known to the Greeks or Romans, but has been used in Abyssinia and along the north-east coast of Africa almost as long as those parts have been populated. Here, in merry England, where coffee was not introduced until the eighteenth century, it was at first used but sparingly, until it almost entirely took the place of chocolate, which was the favoured beverage of the duchesses and fine madams who minced and flirted, and plotted, during the reign of the Merry Monarch, fifty years or so before. The march of knowledge has taught the thrifty housewife of to-day to roast her own coffee, instead of purchasing it in that form from the retail shopkeeper, who, as a rule, under-roasts the berry, in order to “keep the weight in.” But do not blame him too freely, for he is occasionally a Poor Law Guardian, and has to “keep pace with the Stores.”\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Five Star Publishing, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067886551280,"sku":"2940148795384","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148795384_p0.jpg?v=1763708841","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148795384","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}