camp coffee

COOLTRIKERCHICK

in all the 1940's boks and WWII book i have, they all seem to have the a camp coffe advert..

i can also remember my mother saying that hse loved this coffee

even though i am a coffee drinker, i tend to drink more tea, mainly as hubby only drinks tea, but when i do have a cup its allways made wilth milk mmmmm

i was thinking of trying some camp coffee... does anyone else use it ? apart from it being a liquid, how different is it ?

would i be able to have a nice cup of milky coffee with it..

not only that i want a bottle to put on display in my kitchen.....lol....

pink.1970

I remember my mum using it all the time, as a kid i was just fascinated by the picture on the bottle.
I also remember me and my sister pouring it into a jug of milk and claiming not to know anything about it ....oops! :eek: our milk in those days was straight from the farm and mum wasnt to pleased we had done it....lol making me giggle just thinking about it.:rotfl:

prettypennies

My nan still buys camp coffee. All I can remember about it was that it was very sweet...yuk!!

Mind you I don't know whther she used to chuck loads of sugar in when I wasn't looking

looby-loo_2

I remember my grandmother having this, making milky coffee then adding what seemed like 1/2 a bag of sugar! I remember her boiling it in a percolator on the gas but I'm not sure if the milk was in at that stage or added later. It all seemed rather a complicated system.

I have a bottle which I occasionally use to make a coffee cake with lots of coffee butter icing - much better use of the stuff IMO;)

ifonlyitwaseasier

oh i love camp coffee, i use it for a coffe cake i used to make, and every so often a milky treat coffee

MRSMCAWBER

Hi there

I still use camp coffee..it lovely... and is very nice poured into cold milk mmmmmmmmm

Gingernutmeg

Camp is coffee and chicory, which I *think* is more bitter than coffee itself - I think that it was originally added to coffee to bulk it out, as coffee was so expensive. I remember my Mum using Camp a lot in baking and whenever I tried a bit it was horrible, really sweet and syrupy. It's useful for baking though, but I wouldn't want to drink it as a drink.

SueMaggie

My mother-in-law uses it for cakes and it's the only coffee that my father-in-law (age 85) will drink.

There was a rumour a couple of years ago that Camp coffee was going to be discontinued so they bought a couple of cases of it which is still sitting in their spare room.

As you can still buy it, it doesn't look like the rumours were true.

MrsBartolozzi

It's a sugary mixture of coffee and chicory if I recall. Depending on how you like your coffee it might not be "pure" enough if you know what I mean.( not pure coffee a mix with chicory). Hate coffee myself, but as I understand it chicory is an inferior product, put into cheap coffee??

Mrs_Cupier

My grandmother used to drink gallons of the stuff. It's sweeter than true coffee, but it makes an excellent iced coffee, or can be done with hot milk. We also used to use it at the bottom of creme caramel, as I recall.

You do need to keep the bottle in the fridge, I think. We tend to have a bottle in the summer because it's so easy for iced coffee and you don't have to add sugar - just a spoonful of camp, cold milk and ice cubes, or a dollop of ice cream if you're feeling decadent.

Stephen_Leak

Gingernutmeg wrote: »

but I wouldn't want to drink it as a drink.

I think I might be able to change your mind ...

ISLE OF ISLAY CREAM

Makes approx. 1 litre

INGREDIENTS

400g tin of condensed milk
170g tin of evaporated milk (eg. "Ideal")
250ml carton of UHT long-life single cream
250ml of Scotch whisky
6 to 8 teaspoons of coffee essence (eg. "Camp")

METHOD

Pour the milk and cream into a 1 litre jug or bowl. Use the whisky to wash out the milk and cream containers, then add it to the bowl. Mix together. Add the coffee essence to taste.

Pour. Drink. Enjoy. Drink some more. Fall over (optional).

PS. Please don't ask how long this will keep for. I don't know. It has never stayed around long enough to go off!