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About thirty years ago, yes I know it is a long time ago, I bought a little coffee maker from a jumble-sale or similar. This was metal and silverish in colour, with a black bakerlite handle, and a glass dome ontop, and went on the top of the cooker. Inside was a central spindle with a perforated little container fitted on top, in which you put the ground coffee, then filled it with water. When the water boiled, it rose up through the container with the coffee in, and you could see when it had all passed through, by looking at the glass dome.
In more recent years, the OH, in his wisom, encouraged me to come into the present century, and buy some sort of electrical model, and out my old coffee maker. Having tried several of these over the years, I lament for the
loss of my old favourite.
My mission for the New Year, is to scoure the charity shops, and see if I can find another. All this because I had some coffee ground up for me in Starbucks this afternoon, and I can't help sniffing in the bag for a fix.LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Ahhh Julia, apart from the sniff of a Champagne cork, or the lingering sniff of a Gauloise ciggie, there is nothing quite like the sniff of freshly roasted coffee! lol I wish you luck in your mission for a new/old coffee maker. BC XX

Sounds like the one we had in the 70s :-))) Dad used to brew up some real coffee on Sundays. There used to be a little shop in Gloucester which roasted its own coffee and ground it on request - I can smell it now, mmmmm!!

Thanks you Gals, Nollaig, oh Nollaig, me darlin'. It is really the opening of the Remy champagne bottle and a Black Russian that does it for meLOLOL
Sheila, there is nothing like having the coffee ground on the premises.LOLOL
Have a good night girls
Julia in Derbyshire

Oh dear Julia, now if I'd known before leaving Wales I could have sent you the one I had... which must have been from the same era as yours as it matched the description exactly. It was fun watching it bubble into the top lol..