Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.
CARAMELIZE
caramelize, caramelise
(verb) convert to caramel
caramelize, caramelise
(verb) be converted into caramel; “The sugar caramelized”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
caramelize (third-person singular simple present caramelizes, present participle caramelizing, simple past and past participle caramelized)
(cooking, transitive) To convert (sugar) into caramel.
(cooking, transitive) To brown (sugar) by means of heat.
(cooking, intransitive) To undergo this kind of conversion or browning.
Source: Wiktionary
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