Coffa

Their best drink was "coffa" and sherbet, which is only honey and water. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)

Their sit they, chatting most of the day, and sip of a drink called coffa (of the berry that it is made of), in little _China_ dishes, as hot as they can suffer it; black as soot, and tasting not much unlike it (why not that black broth which was in use among the ❋ Various (N/A)

"coffa", is in Captain John Smith's book of _Travels and Adventure_, published in 1603. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Certainly this berry coffa, the root and leaf betel, the leaf tobacco, and the tear of poppy ❋ Unknown (1909)

But it seemeth they were taken after several manners; for coffa and opium are taken down, tobacco but in smoke, and betel is but champed in the mouth with a little lime. ❋ Unknown (1909)

They have in Turkey a drink called _coffa_ made of a berry of the same name, as black as soot, and of a strong scent, but not aromatical; which they take, beaten into powder, in water, as hot as they can drink it: and they take it, and sit at it in their coffa-houses, which are like our taverns. ❋ Unknown (1909)

1603 -- Captain John Smith, English adventurer, and founder of the colony of Virginia, in his book of travels published this year, refers to the Turks 'drink, "coffa." ❋ Unknown (1909)

"Although they be destitute of taverns, yet have they their coffa-houses, which something resemble them. ❋ Various (N/A)

He says of the Turks: "Their best drink is _coffa_ of ❋ Unknown (1909)