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Drip Coffee

A simple coffee brewed by pouring boiling water over ground coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Drip Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Measure 2 level tablespoons of coffee for each 8-ounce cup of boiling water.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the coffee.

  3. Let it steep for a few minutes before serving.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the main flavor; its soluble compounds dissolve into the hot water during brewing.
Boiling water
Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor from the ground coffee.

The step that matters

Let it steep for a few minutes before serving. Steeping gives the hot water time to extract flavor from the grounds. Too short a steep leaves the coffee weak and thin, while the flavor develops as extraction continues.

“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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