On Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Put fresh ground coffee into a coffee pot with enough water.
Heat until it boils for 1-2 minutes.
Remove from heat and pour out a cupful to discard floating grounds.
Repeat this step and let the coffee pot sit near the heat until grounds settle.
Once clear, pour the coffee into cups.
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
- Fresh ground coffee
- Provides the main flavor, as its soluble compounds dissolve into the hot water.
The step that matters
Letting the grounds settle. Floating grounds end up in the cup if poured too soon. Grounds keep dissolving while they sit in hot water, so leaving the pot near heat for too long can make the coffee taste more bitter.
“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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