Sanna Eldén: Coffee From a Cup – Grabbing It From a Plate Was the Etiquette of the Time

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Finland has preserved a tradition from the time when coffee was first used in Europe. Many have seen how old people poured coffee from a coffee cup onto a saucer and drank from the edge of the saucer. A piece of sugar was also placed in the mouth between the lips and teeth, and hot coffee was sipped through it. Conservator Charles Marin says that in the 18th century, coffee was drunk exactly like this: when the coffee was sipped from the edge of…