Rakweh

A long-handled coffee pot: Arabic coffee boiled with cardamom and poured for a guest.

Also called rakwa, arabic coffee pot · From The Levant

A long-handled rakweh of Arabic coffee with cardamom pods and two small cups.

The journey

The rakweh is the Levantine cousin of the briki — a small pot with a long handle, used for qahwa flavored with cardamom and sometimes saffron. Lebanese and wider Middle Eastern houses still boil, rest, and pour into tiny cups as a welcome.

A moka pot makes espresso. This pot makes a conversation.

A 1741 map of the eastern Mediterranean — the coasts whose welcome is still a pot of coffee. — Homann Heirs, map of ancient Greece (1741) · Public domain. Source

In the kitchen

Bring just to a rise, not a rolling boil. Rest. Pour slowly so the grounds stay behind. Serve with dates.

Lebanese and Middle Eastern volumes treat this pour as furniture. A briki is the Greek and Turkish twin.

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