Boiled Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Mix the coffee with a clean eggshell and a little cold water.
Place the mixture in a well-aired coffee pot.
Brew
Add the freshly boiling water.
Boil for five minutes.
Let it stand on the back of the stove for 10 minutes.
Add ½ cup cold water.
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
- Ground coffee
- Supplies the flavour compounds that dissolve into the boiling water to make the drink.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the grounds during the boil.
- Clean eggshell
- Helps bind the fine grounds so they settle, leaving the brew clearer.
- Cold water
- Cools the surface and helps the grounds sink, settling the coffee before serving.
The step that matters
Add the cold water after standing. Cold water added after the stand cools the surface and makes the grounds sink. Adding it too early, or skipping the stand, leaves more grounds suspended in the cup.
“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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