Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place the coffee in a clean muslin bag.
Bring the water to just boiling point.
Add the muslin bag with coffee to the hot water.
Let it boil for about 1 minute.
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
- Freshly ground coffee
- Supplies the flavor compounds that dissolve into the hot water to make the drink.
- Hot water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor and aroma from the ground coffee.
The step that matters
Let it boil for about 1 minute. Boiling extracts flavor quickly, but holding the grounds in hot water too long pulls out bitter compounds. Watch the time so the coffee tastes balanced rather than harsh.
“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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