French Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place the ground coffee in the upper compartment of a French coffee pot.
Slowly pour the boiling water over the coffee.
If the coffee is not strong enough, pour the water over it again.
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
- Supplies the flavor compounds and aroma that the brew is built on.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor and soluble compounds from the grounds.
The step that matters
Pour the water slowly. Pouring slowly wets all the grounds evenly so they extract at a similar rate. Pouring too fast can leave dry pockets and uneven extraction, which tastes flat or harsh.
“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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