Name: Cafe Frappe
Ingredients: 1 quart boiling water over 1 cup finely ground coffee in a french coffee pot; 1 cup finely ground coffee in a french coffee pot

Cafe Frappe

Cafe Frappe is made by pouring boiling water over coffee, letting it drip, dissolving sugar, cooling, adding egg white, freezing to mush, served in glasses.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients

Cafe Frappe

Ingredients

1 quart boiling water over 1 cup finely ground coffee in a french coffee pot
1 cup finely ground coffee in a french coffee pot

Directions

Make the coffee

Pour 1 quart boiling water over 1 cup finely ground coffee in a French coffee pot.
When it has dripped through, pour it back again and let it drip 4 times.

Sweeten and cool

Pour into a bowl and dissolve 1 cup sugar in it.
Set aside to cool.
When cold, add the unbeaten white of an egg.

Freeze and serve

Turn into a freezer and freeze to a mush.
Serve in glasses.
Sweeten freshly made tea to taste.
Freeze to a mush.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coffee: Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma that define the frappe.
Sugar (in the method): Sweetens the coffee and adds body to the chilled mixture.
Egg white (in the method): Adds foam and a light, airy texture to the frozen drink.

“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.