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Boiled Coffee

A beverage made by boiling coffee with egg white and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the grounds

  1. Mix the egg white with cold water and beat with a fork.

  2. Add the ground coffee and stir until well moistened.

Brew

  1. Scald the coffee pot, then add the prepared coffee.

  2. Pour in the boiling water, cover the spout, and boil for 5 minutes.

  3. Quickly pour in the cold water and let it stand for 3 minutes to settle.

  4. Strain into a hot pot or have a strainer ready on the table.

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

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the coffee flavour and body that the hot water extracts.
Raw egg white
Binds fine grounds to clump them so they settle out of the brew.
Freshly boiling water
Extracts flavour from the coffee grounds during the boil.

The step that matters

Quickly pour in the cold water. Adding cold water quickly stops extraction and helps the egg white and grounds clump and sink. Pouring slowly lets the grounds stay suspended, leaving the coffee cloudy.

“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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