Good Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Put a quart of boiling water into the coffee pot.
Wet a cup of ground coffee with the white of an egg.
Add the eggshell and a little cold water.
Brew and serve
Add this mixture to the boiling hot water and boil quickly for ten minutes.
Add a half cup of cold water and set the pot before the hearth or table to settle for five minutes.
Pour the coffee carefully into a metal or china coffee pot or urn.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma extracted into the hot water.
- Egg white (in the method)
- Binds fine grounds to the eggshell so they clump and settle, clarifying the brew.
The step that matters
Boil quickly for ten minutes. Vigorous boiling extracts flavor from the grounds, but the egg and shell mixture must be added so it can capture the fine particles. Boiling too gently leaves the brew weak and cloudy.
“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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