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A brewed beverage made from Java and Mocha coffee, boiled with water, served hot with cream and sugar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Coffee

Why it works: Cream and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Boil 1 quart of water in a coffee boiler.

  2. Add ¾ pound of Java and ¼ pound of Mocha coffee.

  3. Stir with a silver spoon or fork as it begins to boil.

  4. Boil for 10 to 12 minutes.

  5. Remove from heat.

  6. Pour out a cup of coffee, then pour it back into the pot.

  7. Place the pot on the back of the stove to keep hot without boiling.

  8. Let it settle for about 5 minutes before serving.

Serve

  1. Serve hot with cream and lump sugar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream + sugartop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Java coffee
Provides the main body and flavor of the brew.
Mocha coffee
Adds a richer, more aromatic flavor to the blend.

The step that matters

Boil for 10 to 12 minutes. Boiling extracts flavor from the grounds, but over-boiling can make the coffee bitter. Letting the grounds settle afterward keeps the liquid clear.

“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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