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To Make Coffee

A method for making brown coffee with egg, using a pint of coffee and a quart of boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog] · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Make Coffee

To Make Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the egg mixture

  1. Take half a pint of brown coffee and half a beaten egg.

  2. Mix well together in a little cold water.

Boil and settle

  1. Pour in a quart of boiling water, or stir it in boiling water in a coffee boiler.

  2. Stir from the sides as it boils up.

  3. Let it boil ten minutes.

  4. Pour in a little cold water to settle it.

  5. Set it where it will keep warm and not boil.

By Des Moines. Plymouth church. [from old catalog]. 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. See the original page.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Brown coffee
Provides the main liquid and the coffee flavour and colour of the drink.
Egg (in the method)
Its proteins set as the mixture heats, binding fine grounds so the coffee clears.

The step that matters

Stir from the sides as it boils up. The egg sets when it meets the hot coffee. Stirring keeps it moving through the liquid so it binds the grounds evenly instead of cooking onto the pot's sides.

“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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