Coffee Buns with Cream Recipe

Ingredients
1 and ½ cups of hot coffee
1 and ½ cups of bakers flour
1 cup of shortening
6 eggs
Salt

Preparation
Dissolve the shortening in the hot coffee and add in the salt and flour. Stir over low heat, until the mixture is liquid. Then take it off the heat and add in the eggs one by one; beat continuously until you obtain a thick paste.

Grease a baking tray and place spoons of the mixture in it separating each bun.

Place it in the oven for 20 minutes, then turn the heat down and allow them to heat up for another 20 minutes.

Once done, allow the buns to cool, and when they have cooled open then in half and fill them with the coffee cream.

Remember that the Muslims were not allowed to drink wine. So they had to look for a substitute. Coffee was a good option as it stimulated the body and provided heat. In 1450 it was drunken in the South of Arabia. It has been speculated that it arrived to The Mecca before the end of the century, but in 1511 drinking it was prohibited. The same happened in 1524. Every once in awhile it was allowed and then authorized. Either way, coffee is still very ingrained in the Muslim world. Coffee then arrived to Venice, and therefore to Europe, in 1615. In 1643 it arrived to Paris and maybe in London in 1651.

In 1669, a Turkish ambassador took care of diffusing it wherever it was accepted. It acquired fame, as a medication and aphrodisiac, like what happened with tea and chocolate. An Armenian named Pascal set up the first establishment in 1672 in which coffee was sold in Saint Germain, France.