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Coffee for Six Persons

A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee, egg, cold water, boiling water, and a pinch of salt.

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 ↓

Coffee for Six Persons

serves 6

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a bowl, combine the ground coffee, egg, and cold water.

  2. Add 1 pint of boiling water and bring to a boil.

  3. Stir in another pint of boiling water and let it sit to settle before serving.

  4. Add a pinch of salt before serving.

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.

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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 main flavor and aroma that the brewed drink carries.
Egg
Its proteins bind to the coffee grounds as they heat, helping them settle clear.

The step that matters

Bringing to a boil with the coffee and egg. Heating the egg mixture with the grounds lets the egg proteins coagulate and trap the fine particles. Adding boiling water too early or stirring vigorously can keep the grounds suspended, leaving the coffee cloudy and gritty.

“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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