Pour the milk into a pan. Add the sugar and both decoctions. Stir and pour into another small pan so the coffee froths. Now pour into the glass and place the glass into the davara. Your coffee is ready. You can drink it out of your regular coffee mug, we do. The davara and tumbler sets come out for special occasions or when elderly folks come visiting.

If the coffee is too hot to drink, then about half the coffee is poured into the davara and allowed to cool till the required temperature.

We like our coffee strong and with a little more milk and drink it steaming hot. You can experiment with the amounts of milk, decoction and sugar till you find a proportion that suits your palate.

My first experience of true filter coffee making was after I got married and I still havenu2019t lived down the experience. I made good tea but coffee had been my motheru2019s department till then. Soon after we were married, my father happened to visit us at my in-lwasu2019 place. It was late afternoon and my mother-in-law was having her nap. My husband and father decide they wanted coffee and I offered to make it. Big mistake! I went into the kitchen, boiled the milk, added the sugar and what appeared to be coffee decoction. I poured it out and took it to my husband and father. Both took their first sips, swallowed and then had the weirdest expressions on their faces. I could make out the coffee tasted awful. My father didnu2019t want to say anything in front of his new son-in-law and my husband didnu2019t want to appear unsupportive of his new wife in her fatheru2019s presence!!

Apparently I had used the watery second expressed decoction instead of the first expressed stronger one to make the coffee. I wasnu2019t even aware that there could be two decoctions!!! I am happy to say that I have vastly improved since then and make a reasonably good filter coffee now.