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Boiled Coffee

A beverage made by boiling coffee grounds with egg white and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and coffee are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. In a bowl, mix the ground coffee with the egg white and ¼ cup of cold water.

  2. Pour the mixture into a scalded pot and add boiling water.

Boil and settle

  1. Boil for 3 minutes.

  2. Remove from heat.

  3. Add 2 tablespoons of cold water.

  4. Let it settle for 10 minutes.

  5. Pour the coffee from the grounds.

Serve

  1. Serve.

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.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Egg + coffeetop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Egg white
Binds the coffee grounds and helps clarify the liquid as it cooks.
Ground coffee
Provides the coffee flavor and aroma that the water extracts.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the coffee grounds during brewing.

The step that matters

Add 2 tablespoons of cold water. Adding cold water after boiling drops the temperature and helps the grounds sink, so the coffee clears instead of staying 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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