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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Ground coffee
- Provides the flavor and strength of the brew, which is extracted by the hot water.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor and aroma from the coffee grounds as it passes through them.
The step that matters
Slowly pour the boiling water over the coffee. Pouring slowly lets the water saturate the grounds evenly and extract flavor steadily, rather than washing through quickly and producing a weak, uneven brew.
“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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