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Cold Water Coffee

A drink brewed by mixing coffee with cold water, heating to boiling, then allowing grounds to settle.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the coffee pot.

  2. Add the coffee and cold water, and stir until well mixed.

Brew

  1. Heat to boiling point.

  2. Remove from heat and let the grounds settle.

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

Coffee
Provides the flavour and aroma that the water draws out of the grounds.

The step that matters

Heat to boiling point. The mixture must reach boiling to extract flavour from the grounds. Heating it for too long or too hard can over-extract bitter compounds, so remove it from the heat once it boils.

“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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