Filtered or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Combine 1 part Mocha coffee with 2 parts Java coffee.
Sew a small muslin bag to fit inside the top of the coffee pot.
Warm the coffee pot by pouring in some boiling water.
Brew
Place the ground coffee into the muslin bag inside the pot.
Gradually pour boiling water over the coffee grounds.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the flavour compounds that the hot water dissolves out during brewing.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and aroma from the grounds as it passes through them.
- Mocha coffee
- Adds its own flavour to the blend, combined with the Java coffee.
- Java coffee
- Forms the larger share of the blend, shaping the body and flavour of the cup.
The step that matters
Gradually pour boiling water over the coffee grounds. Pouring slowly and evenly lets the water saturate all the grounds, so flavour is extracted uniformly. A rushed pour can channel past some grounds and leave the coffee weak in places.
“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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