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Coffee-iiti

A method of making coffee by reusing the liquid from the previous day's brew and adding fresh grounds.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Coffee-iiti

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the pot

  1. Pour off the remaining liquid from the previous day's coffee and discard the grounds.

  2. Rinse the coffee pot with cold water.

  3. Add 1 cup of cold coffee to the pot and set it on the stove.

Brew

  1. Allow the coffee to boil while you prepare other dishes.

  2. Grind fresh coffee and add it to the boiling coffee pot.

  3. Let it boil for a few more minutes before serving.

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

Fresh coffee grounds
Release flavor and aroma into the hot liquid as they steep and boil.
Cold coffee
Forms the liquid base that is heated and brewed 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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