 And of course with my father travelling on the
liners we were introduced to things which weren't so common in the cuisine of
British households at the time. He of course was used to good coffee in America
so he taught us how to make coffee, which of course was far far stronger than
the coffee that we were used to at the time. Coffee used to be made by putting
spoonfuls of ground coffee in a jug and just letting the ground settle and then
pouring it off afterwards. But a percolator was one of the first things I
wanted once I heard how this worked, and I got this again soon after I was
married - which again I still have. Things then were so much cheaper, that if a
man was in a good job you could afford to buy the best of things which of
course proved themselves by lasting. So as I say I had a stainless steel
percolator and made coffee as it should be made, because as a child I was never
very struck on Camp Coffee, which was one of the very popular coffee drinks of
the time. 
 
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