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A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee with egg and boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Coffee

Why it works: Coffee and egg 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 ↓

Coffee

3 people

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the coffee just before making.

  2. In a basin, mix the ground coffee with the egg until it has a mortar-like consistency.

Brew

  1. Add warm water to the coffee pot.

  2. Let it boil.

  3. Break the mixture three times while boiling.

  4. Let it stand for a few minutes.

Serve

  1. Serve the coffee, which will be clear and have a rich taste.

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. Coffee + eggtop 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

Fresh roasted coffee
Provides the main coffee flavour and aroma that the brew carries.
Egg
Binds with the ground coffee and, as it cooks, helps clarify the brew by trapping fine grounds.

The step that matters

Break the mixture three times while boiling. Breaking the egg and coffee crust into the boiling liquid disperses it so the egg proteins can coagulate and gather the grounds. Doing it too gently leaves the coffee cloudy and gritty.

“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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