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Making of Coffee

A simple method for brewing coffee using boiled water and ground coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Making of Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil water in a pot.

  2. Add 1 ounce of roasted and ground coffee to the boiling water.

  3. Stir and let it steep for a few minutes.

  4. Strain the coffee into a cup and serve hot.

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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What each ingredient does

Roasted and ground coffee
Provides the main flavor and aroma as soluble compounds extract into the hot water.

“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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