Name: Good Boiled Coffee
Ingredients: one quart of boiling water; a tablespoonful of cold water; one teacupful ground coffee already cleared

Good Boiled Coffee

A beverage made by boiling water with ground coffee and eggshells.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson." · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients

Good Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

one quart of boiling water
a tablespoonful of cold water
one teacupful ground coffee already cleared

Directions

Take one teacupful of ground coffee already cleared.
Mix with a little cold water, then add one quart of boiling water and some eggshells.
Let it come to a good boil.
When done add about a tablespoonful of cold water, and let it stand a few moments before pouring off and sending to table.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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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What each ingredient does

Ground coffee: Provides the main coffee flavour and aroma that the water extracts during boiling.
Eggshells (in the method): Help settle the grounds so the coffee pours off clearer.

“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.