Originally Posted by
allenmurray
Thanks for that - it brought back a great memory - perhaps my earliest memory.
Despite being a great cook, my grandmother always made instant coffee. She had some large saucers, very deep, almost like small bowls. In the mornings when I would stay with her she would make instant coffee and fill each coffee cup about 1/3 of the way full. She would then fill the cup to the top with evaporated milk, and add two spoons of sugar. Then she would pour coffee from the cup into the saucer (it cooled faster in the saucer). This is how she always drank her coffee, and how she fixed it for me when I was there to stay with her. We sipped/slurped our coffee out of the saucer til it was empty, then refilled the saucer until the coffee was gone. I've never had better coffee and I never will. Those early mornings drinking coffee with her before anyone else was awake were probably the closest I'll ever come to magic on earth.
This all took place in an old house in Harnett County, about 1965 or so, until she finally moved out of that house in 1973. The house (still standing, but vacant) is only about 25 miles from Raleigh. Despite being that close to the capital, she did not have running water in her house, only a few electrical outlets, and a coal stove for heat. She lived there until I was about 13 or so.