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Turkish Coffee

A beverage made by boiling finely ground coffee with cold water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine the finely ground coffee and cold water in a pot.

  2. Heat the mixture until it reaches the boiling point.

  3. Serve immediately without cream or sugar.

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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What each ingredient does

Finely ground coffee
Provides the coffee flavor and body; its fine grind dissolves into the water and forms the grounds that settle.
Cold water
Serves as the liquid that extracts flavor from the coffee as it heats.

“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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