To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Heat the ground coffee in a saucepan over the fire, stirring until hot.
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Cover tightly and let steep for 5 minutes.
Strain the coffee through a cloth and serve warm.
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 coffee
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the hot water draws out during steeping.
“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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