On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 17:23:52 -0500, Melba's Jammin'
> wrote:

>In article >,
> Vesper > wrote:
>> You are one of the reasons I am coming to love this group. Thanks for
>> the extract idea.
>>
>> V
>
>Thank you; you're very kind.
>
>Maybe 35 years ago my dead niece had some fancy gizmo for doing the
>selfsame thing. This requires no equipment other than a good-size jar.
>The one I used was, I'm guessing, about 1-1/2 to 2 quarts capacity.
>Straining it was kind of a pain in that I had to do it in a few steps.
>
>I'm thinking that next time (I'm pretty sure there will be a next time)
>I'll pour it through a fine-mesh strainer before filtering through a
>coffee filter or three.
>
>The quantities I used produced about a pint of extract; the coffee
>grounds really soaked up the water. Give it a try. Heck, there's no
>reason you couldn't reduce the proportions even more.

Thanks again.

V