Iced Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Brew stronger coffee than usual at breakfast.
Allow the coffee to cool.
Serve the cold coffee over cracked ice in each tumbler.
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
- Coffee
- Provides the main flavor and caffeine, and brewing it stronger keeps the drink bold after it is diluted by melting ice.
- Cracked ice
- Chills the coffee quickly and dilutes it slightly as it melts, softening the drink's intensity.
The step that matters
Brew the coffee stronger than usual. Melting ice dilutes the coffee as it sits, so a normal-strength brew can taste weak and watery. Brewing stronger offsets that dilution.
“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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