Coffee Preparation
Ingredients
Directions
Add 40 grains of dry carbonate of soda or 80 grains of crystallized carbonate of soda to the water used for brewing coffee.
Brew the coffee using the prepared water.
Serve the coffee once brewed.
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
- Carbonate of soda
- Raises the alkalinity of the brewing water, which changes how the coffee extracts and tastes.
“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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