Can you eat coffee cherries directly? how do coffee cherries taste? introduction to the earliest coffee

For professional baristas, please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style)

Have you ever seen the fruit of coffee? It is red, small fruit like small olives and sweet pulp like cherries. Now, by roasting, it is the seeds of raw coffee beans that are the mainstream to drink coffee, but so it has been eaten in Ethiopia. The theme this time is "Coffee already. Is it good food?"

About coffee.

Coffee is the seed of fruit that lives in coffee trees. Coffee tree is a plant of the genus Coffee, with smooth evergreen leaves and white flowers. After the flower and fruit are born and mature, the seeds of the fruit become coffee beans, which is the raw material of coffee.

The coffee beans we saw in the coffee shop were roasted raw coffee beans.

Two legends, the coffee fruit was eaten.

Here are several theories about the origin of coffee, but the legend of "sheep Tsukai Kaldi" and the legend of "monk Islam shaking Omar" have been handed down.

Legend of Goat using Kaldi

In the 9th century, wild coffee grew up on the Abyssinia plateau in southern Ethiopia without eye contact.

One day, Kaldi's goat Tsukai, the goat ate red fruit is a coffee tree, you found excited to jump up and down. Caldy consulted the priest of the monastery to do this and tried to eat fruit.

The fruit is sour and sweet and delicious, it seems that the whole body is full, the mood is fresh. The monks who heard the story said that they began to drink the red fruit of coffee as a task on a sleepy afternoon night.

Muslim monks seek Omar

In the middle of the 13th century, it was accused that Omar sought to be expelled from Mocha, and that he had been wandering the land of Osaba with nothing to eat.

So, watching the bird Tsuibami red coffee fruit, singing happily, I decided to try to take the boiled fruit. Made of red fruit, vitality from the fact has sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain, to the wonderful smell of mind and body and drink soup, he used red fruit, which is to say, he saved a lot of sick people.

The king admitted this, and Sheikh Omar was pardoned and was able to return to Mocha. Since then, I have helped a lot of people to make coffee, and later I became a saint.

Were you aware of the impact of awakening from the beginning?

Both legends are unique subtleties, and they found the awakening effect of eating coffee fruit, exciting and refreshing.

Although these legends spread as the origin of coffee, they are said to have become more and more adapted as they get older. However, as a coffee lover, this is an interesting story, I will know.

As a culture of eating coffee

Among the Oromo people in southwestern Ethiopia, dumplings-shaped fried coffee fruit and butter, moving food during the invasion of other races, are said to have been able to continue their unremitting efforts.

In addition, in Ethiopia, there are coffee trees on the plateau that boil fruit seeds in soup for a long time and have been native for a long time, which is the right diet.

Was the coffee fruit old in the past? Abstract

In Ethiopia, coffee trees grow naturally and seem to have a certain habit of drinking coffee.

Or boiled in soup, it is different to eat portable food in dumplings and fried cream, but the neat feeling of excitement such as eating a cup of coffee has been known from that time.

The history and old stories of coffee that many people like are very attractive and interesting. Why not drink coffee while thinking about the history of distant coffee.