Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place 1 cup of dry coffee in a filtering bag.
Pour 2 cups of boiling water over the coffee, ensuring it is evenly wet.
Allow the coffee to infuse and pass through.
Keep the bottom of the bag in a vessel of boiling water to keep the coffee hot.
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
- Supplies the flavour and aroma compounds that dissolve into the water.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the grounds and carries it into the drink.
The step that matters
Pouring the water evenly over the coffee. If some grounds stay dry while others are soaked, the water channels through gaps and extracts unevenly, producing a weak, uneven brew.
“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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