Old expression.....

[Bob Wright]

While preaching this morning, our young pastor (42 years old) mentioned he began drinking coffee while he was very your, as his grandpa would add sugar and milk and cool it in a saucer. He then slurped it from the saucer.

I told him later that was known as "saucered and blowed" coffee.


Bob Wright

 

[blackhawknj]

Never heard that expression, I was told by a guide at a Revolutionary War site that was how they did it back then.

 

[daveg.inkc]

My father told me this weekend about drinking coffee like that. I remember grandparents doing this as a child. Coffee cups in a saucer served like this.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

It's been a long time since I heard that one. When I was a kid and thought I was big enough to drink coffee, my Mom kept telling me "No." When she finally gave in and gave me a cup, I asked if I could put cream and sugar in it.

"If you're big enough to drink coffee, you're big enough to drink it right. Black!"

They warn't no saucered 'n' blowed coffee nowhere near ta our house.

Rick C

 

[BearBio]

I've heard of the custom but not the expression.

 

[Bob Wright]

Never heard that expression, I was told by a guide at a Revolutionary War site that was how they did it back then.

Uhhhh, and you're saying?


Bob Wright

 

[COWTOWNER]

I remember my Grandmother drinking her morning coffee that way.
As a very young guy, I never understood why she would pour her coffee into her saucer, and then drink it.

Thanks

Mike

 

[Bob Wright]

I remember my Grandmother drinking her morning coffee that way.
As a very young guy, I never understood why she would pour her coffee into her saucer, and then drink it.

Thanks

Mike

The way coffee was made then, boiling, it was scalding hot and saucering and blowing cooled it down to drinkable temperature, as those old thick mugs kept it hot for awhile.

Bob Wright

 

[ChiefMuzz]

Boiled coffee...
I'd need plenty of cream and sugar too

 

[Goldstar225]

That's how my grandmother got me started on coffee when I was about 4 or 5 years old.

 

[Rancher Will]

I remember my parents, when I was very young, plus some of the farmers who took me to live with them after I lost my parents in 1939, pour their coffee into a saucer, blow on it to cool it before drinking it.

I also know the effects of drinking coffee as a young boy. I can not remember when I first started drinking coffee. I do remember that in Oklahoma on the farm that my dad owned, we got our house water from a cistern. Since my mother always boiled the water before we drank or used it in foods, we never drank plain water at meals. I drank coffee along with the adults.

I remember many times, when a neighbor or other friends saw me, a boy 5 or 6 years old, drinking coffee, they would tell me that drinking coffee would "stunt my growth".
I have drank coffee all my life and still do, every meal and between meals. But they must have been right. I am only slightly over 6 feet tall and I am sure that had I not drank coffee as a little kid, I might have grown to be 8 feet tall and made a fortune in the NBA.

 

[Pat-inCO]

I remember many times, when a neighbor or other friends saw me,
a boy 5 or 6 years old, drinking coffee, they would tell me that drinking
coffee would "stunt my growth". I have drank coffee all my life and still do,
every meal and between meals. But they must have been right. I am only
slightly over 6 feet tall and I am sure that had I not drank coffee as a little
kid, I might have grown to be 8 feet tall and made a fortune in the NBA.

Priceless!

 

[gramps]

Rancher Will, as a healthcare professional, let me apologize for not being born earlier, so I could have splained about the ravages of coffee on young nubile bodies, and saved you from having to RANCH, all these years? :shock: :mrgreen:
gramps
ps. I haven’t seen you RW, but you have seemed to turnout just fine! Either because of or in spite of said coffee. 8)

 

[Colonel Daddy]

All 4 of my grandparents drank their coffee from a saucer and many uncles did (one uncle poured his coffee over toast in his saucer) but my parents never did. Somehow I never learned to drink coffee

 

[6GUNSONLY]

I recall my great-grandparents "saucering" their coffee. They also liked to dunk their toast in their coffee then eat it.

I started drinking coffee early and I'm sure glad it stunted my growth - no telling how tall I'd have gotten. As it was I made it to 6' 5" and 225 pounds.

 

[daveg.inkc]

Jed Clampett used this expression. I watched them shooting clay birds. Jed and Jethro used rifles. Jethro’s may have been a Henry. Jed said he could drink saucered coffee out of them

 

[Bobberfishin]

"That's an old saying that I just made up."

Loggins & Messina song lyric

 

[toysoldier]

I was aware of the practice and expression, but never knew anyone who did it.

 

[steveodtw]

I remember my parents, when I was very young, plus some of the farmers who took me to live with them after I lost my parents in 1939, pour their coffee into a saucer, blow on it to cool it before drinking it.

I also know the effects of drinking coffee as a young boy. I can not remember when I first started drinking coffee. I do remember that in Oklahoma on the farm that my dad owned, we got our house water from a cistern. Since my mother always boiled the water before we drank or used it in foods, we never drank plain water at meals. I drank coffee along with the adults.

I remember many times, when a neighbor or other friends saw me, a boy 5 or 6 years old, drinking coffee, they would tell me that drinking coffee would "stunt my growth".
I have drank coffee all my life and still do, every meal and between meals. But they must have been right. I am only slightly over 6 feet tall and I am sure that had I not drank coffee as a little kid, I might have grown to be 8 feet tall and made a fortune in the NBA.

I was told the same about coffee and smoking. I'm here to attest that, at 6'4 and well over 250 lbs., neither has worked.
I no longer use either, thank goodness.

 

[Armybrat]

My Dad used that expression now & then when he was referring to someone or something that was ready to go.
He didn’t drink coffee (nor alcohol) but didn’t mind when Mom fixed 10 year old me a glass of “coffee milk” on Saturday & Sunday mornings- 1/3 coffee, 2/3 milk, with three teaspoons of sugar, and chilled to almost freezing. I still do that today 65 years later. Don’t use coffee at all otherwise.