Coffee Time! Pink Coffee Pot ornament from the "Good Life" Collection by Inge-Glas® of Germany.
Coffee Time ornament is 3 3/4" in ht to the top of the wire star. It is very delicately glittered with exquisite detailing. The crown is gold colored.
Heirloom ornaments from Inge-Glas are made of genuine German glass, located in northern Bavaria, by Coburg, Neustadt, Germany is the home of Inge-Glas where the tradition of quality glassblowing dates back to 1596.
New ornaments are designed each year with inspiration from 6,000 antique family moulds, dating back to the 1850's.
Only skilled artisans create Inge-Glas ornaments. Each piece is masterfully designed, mouth-blown and handpainted with care creating limited quantities of heirloom ornaments to treasure for generations.
The Legend: Coffee originated on the plateaus of central Ethiopia by 1000A.D. At present, 85 percent of Americans begin their day by making some form of the drink, and the average American consumes three cups of it over the course of the day. The brew favored by early American coffee drinkers tasted significantly different from that enjoyed by today's connoisseurs, as nineteenth-century cookbooks make clear. One 1844 cookbook instructed people to use a much higher coffee/water ratio than we favor today (one tablespoon per sixteen ounces); boil the brew for almost a half an hour (today people are instructed never to boil coffee); and add fish skin, isinglass (a gelatin made from the air bladders of fish), or egg shells to reduce the acidity brought out by boiling the beans so long. American attempts to create instant coffee began during the mid-1800s, when one of the earliest instant coffees was offered in cake form to Civil War troops. Although it and other early instant coffees tasted even worse than regular coffee of the epoch, the incentive of convenience proved strong, and efforts to manufacture a palatable instant brew continued. Finally, after using U.S. troops as testers during World War II, an American coffee manufacturer (Maxwell House) began marketing the first successful instant coffee in 1950. The Italians are known for their espresso, a thick brew served in tiny cups and made by dripping hot water over twice the normal quantity of ground coffee, and the French have contributed café au lait, a combination of coffee and milk or cream which they consume from bowls at breakfast.
