Lately, a colleague at work asked me if I would put together a coffee spice mixture for her To be honest, I was a little overwhelmed at first, because I know more about tea. She then brought me a jar of coffee spice mixture which had the approximate composition on it. Now I knew to some extent the spices I should use, but of course, I didn’t have any information about the quantity. That, in turn, left my “tinkerer’s heart” no peace! Until now I have only flavoured my coffee with cardamom at Christmas, or sometimes with vanilla sugar or rose sugar. And so I set out on a search.…