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Boiled Coffee

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Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. i Heaping teaspoon ground coffee to i cup freshly boiling water.

  2. i Cup ground coffee to i quart freshly boiling water. Mix the coffee with a clean eggshell and a little cold water, and place in a well-aired coffee pot. Add the freshly boiling water and boil five minutes. Let stand on back of stove 10 minutes. Add ^2 cup cold water.

  3. NOTE : — Coffee should be freshly ground and kept in air-tight cans. A favorite coffee is 2-3 Java and 1-3 Mocha.

By New Orleans Federation of Clubs. 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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