Has anyone heard of camper's coffee?!
Answers: When I was young and staying at my grandparents, my grandmother would make coffee in an old percolator pot, adding the water and coffee grounds, but she added an egg to it. She called it camper's coffee. So my question is, why the egg?? My memory just got jogged when I watched an old I Love Lucy rerun and she put an egg in the coffee pot.
she prob didnt add an egg to it, but rather some egg shells, when you boil coffee "cowboy coffee style" you put the coffee grounds directly into the boiling water. the egg shells were a way of settling the grounds to the bottom of the pot, another way is to simply add a little cold water to the boiling coffee mixture and this settles the grounds also
Generally a boiled coffee, the egg was the shell only, added some calcium, minerals to the java. Need to strain off to eliminate the grounds. Strong stuff, too!