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Filtered Coffee

A simple coffee made by filtering ground coffee with boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Add 1½ tablespoons of ground coffee to the filter for each person.

  2. Slowly pour 1 cup of boiling water over the coffee for each person.

  3. Once all the water has passed through the coffee, pour it through a second time.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the dissolved flavour compounds that make up the brew's taste and aroma.
Boiling water
Extracts flavour from the grounds and carries it through the filter into the cup.

The step that matters

Pouring the water slowly. Pouring too fast can channel water past the grounds, leaving the coffee weak and under-extracted, while a steady pour lets the water saturate the grounds evenly and extract flavour consistently.

“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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