French Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Put three pints of water and one cup of ground coffee in a bowl.
Pour about one half pint of cold water over the coffee grounds and let stand for 15 minutes.
Bring the remaining two and a half pints of water to a boil.
Strain the coffee grounds through a fine sieve.
Brew
Place the coffee grounds in the strainer at the top of a French coffee pot, leaving the water in the bowl.
Pour the boiling water over the coffee very slowly.
Set the coffee pot on the stove for five minutes, ensuring it does not boil.
Remove the pot and pour in the cold water from the bowl that the coffee was first soaked in.
Serve
Serve the coffee in another pot.
Use 3 parts Java and 1 part Mocha.
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
- Supplies the main coffee flavour and aroma that the water extracts.
- Java
- Adds the bulk of the coffee flavour and a full, rounded body.
- Mocha
- Adds a brighter, slightly chocolaty note to the blend.
The step that matters
Keep the pot from boiling on the stove. Boiling over-extracts the grounds, pulling out bitter, harsh compounds and dulling the coffee's flavour, so the pot should stay hot but below a boil.
“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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