From: rd.com
If your family’s from the Midwest (especially Wisconsin or Minnesota), you might remember your grandma boiling up big batches of what she called Scandinavian coffee (or perhaps Norwegian or Swedish coffee, if she wanted to get specific). If she was making it for a church get-together, she might have called it church basement coffee and brought along one of these heavenly desserts.
But what was the secret ingredient in coffee that Gran made? If you peeked in the percolator, you might have seen it.
