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Coffee with Lizards?

by | Feb 12, 2011 | Uncategorized

Plus, light some brandy on fire and serve up an 1894 coffee recipe.
We’ve all heard of coffee with cream and sugar, but with lizards? Yep, such a concoction was drunk in Texas in the late 1800s. “At one of the dances a large wash pot of coffee, surrounded by numerous tin cups, was kept boiling all night under a large tree in the front yard, so that the guests might refresh themselves whenever they wished. While the cowbo


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