French Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place the ground coffee in a coffee pot.
Pour boiling water over the coffee, using 1 teacup for every tablespoon of coffee.
Allow it to drip slowly on the stove.
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
- Ground java or mocha coffee
- Provides the main coffee flavour and aroma as the water extracts it from the grounds.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour from the coffee grounds and makes up the liquid volume of the brew.
The step that matters
Allow it to drip slowly on the stove.. Water that passes through the grounds too quickly extracts too little flavour and tastes weak, while holding it too long extracts bitter compounds. A slow, steady drip gives a balanced brew.
“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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