Coffee Substitutes

We made some coffee from roasted dandelion roots last fall and found the 'coffee' very enjoyable. We simply washed the roots, cut them up finely - about 1/2 cm square - and roasted them in a pan over a fire for 1/2 hour or a bit more and then ground them up and boiled the rough powder.
-- email from David Neufeld Room To Grow organic greenhouse

Roasted faba beans (roasted and ground) are a tasty hot drink substitute for coffee.
-- Darcy Hickson, an farmer of certified organic products near Brandon (see OPAM)

-- DalilaS - 17 Apr 2007