For after-dinner coffee use twice the quantity of coffee, or half the amount of liquid mentioned in previous recipes. Filtered coffee is often preferred where milk or cream is not used, as is always the case with black coffee. Serve in the usual small after-dinner coffee cups.

Coffee retards gastric digestion; but where the stomach has been overtaxed by a hearty meal, cafe noir may prove beneficial, so great are its stimulating effects, but over-indulgence must be strictly guarded against.