Tia Maria Tia Maria Tia Maria is a dark liqueur made originally in Jamaica using Jamaican coffee beans. The main flavour ingredients are coffee beans, Jamaican rum, vanilla, and sugar, blended to an alcoholic content of 20%. The historical fable of its origins dates it to the 18th century. A young Spanish girl was forced to flee Jamaica, and the family plantation during a conflict. She was accompanied by a sole servant who carried a bit of jewelry and the recipe for the family liqueur. In honor of the woman's help, the girl named the liqueur "Tia Maria" ("tia" is Spanish for
Tia (overseer of treasury) household of Tia, named Panakhtenniut, was found nearby. There is no evidence he was the owner of the chapel however. Tia was already known from several objects before his tombs was discovered. A "pyramidion" reached England in 1722 and was brought there from Alexandria. It is only known from old drawings, but they are good enough to read the name and titles. Not all materials mentioning Tia and Tia comes from the tomb in Saqqara. Ahmed Mahmoud Moussa discovered a funerary chapel at Kafr el-Gebel which is located to the south of the Giza Pyramid Plateau at the edge of