French Coffee in a Pitcher
Ingredients
Directions
Brew
Put the coffee in a well-warmed pitcher.
Pour the boiling water over the coffee and stir to saturate.
Cover the pitcher with a cloth and let it stand for five minutes.
Filter and serve
Prepare another heated vessel and lay a piece of scalded muslin over it.
Pour the coffee carefully through the muslin to filter.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Finely-ground coffee
- Provides the flavour and body of the brew, extracted by the hot water over time.
- Freshly-boiled water
- Extracts the soluble flavour compounds from the coffee grounds when poured over them.
The step that matters
Pour the coffee carefully through the muslin. Pouring slowly and steadily keeps the fine grounds trapped in the muslin, so the coffee stays clear instead of gritty.
“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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