Filtered Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Put finely ground coffee in a cup, add 6 cups of freshly boiling water.
Place the coffee in a strainer, put the strainer in the coffee pot, and place the pot over slow fire.
Add the boiling water gradually and allow it to filter or drip. Cover between additions of water.
If desired stronger, refilter.
Serve immediately with cut sugar, cream, or scalded milk. Put sugar and cream in a cup, then add the hot coffee.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Finely ground coffee (in the method)
- Provides the coffee flavour and aroma that the water extracts as it drips through.
The step that matters
Adding the boiling water gradually. Pouring slowly lets the water pass through the grounds at a steady rate, extracting flavour evenly. Pouring too fast can wash out grounds and leave the coffee weak or uneven.
“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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