Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the coffee
Roast the coffee until the seeds swell.
Grind the coffee very fine.
Steep
Pour 1 quart of water over the ground coffee.
Stir the mixture for 3-4 minutes.
Cover the mixture.
Let it stand for 15 minutes.
Pour off the clear liquid.
Keep the liquid warm.
Boil the grounds and finish
Boil the coffee grounds in water.
Strain the boiled grounds.
Add the strained grounds to the fresh coffee for enhanced aroma.
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
- Ground coffee
- Supplies the flavour and aroma compounds that the water extracts into the drink.
“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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