Filtered or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Sew a small muslin bag to fit inside the top of the coffee pot.
Pour boiling water into the bag to warm the pot.
Add the ground coffee to the bag.
Gradually pour boiling water over the coffee.
Close the lid and let the water filter through.
Remove the bag and serve the coffee.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma as water extracts it from the grounds.
- Boiling water
- Dissolves the soluble flavor compounds from the coffee grounds and carries them into the brew.
- Java coffee
- Adds body and a deep, earthy flavor to the blend.
- Mocha coffee
- Adds a lighter, chocolate-like sweetness and aroma to the blend.
The step that matters
Gradually pour boiling water over the coffee.. Pouring slowly lets the water wet and saturate all the grounds evenly, so flavor is extracted uniformly. Pouring too fast can flood a channel through the grounds, leaving the brew weak in some parts and bitter in others.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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