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To Makk Coffee

A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee with an egg and boiling the mixture.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Makk Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the coffee just before making.

  2. In a basin, mix the ground coffee with the egg until it reaches a mortar-like consistency.

Brew and settle

  1. Add warm (not boiling) water to the coffee pot.

  2. Let it boil three times.

  3. Allow it to stand for a few minutes until clear.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Fresh-roasted coffee
Provides the main flavor and aroma of the drink.
Egg
Binds the ground coffee into a paste that helps the brew clear as it settles.

The step that matters

Mixing the coffee with the egg. The coffee and egg must be worked together until they form a thick, mortar-like paste. This lets the egg bind the grounds so they settle out, leaving the brew clear when water is added.

“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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