To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Scald the coffee pot.
Add 2 teaspoons of freshly ground coffee for each ½ cup of boiling water.
Pour in the boiling water.
Pour out a teacupful of coffee, pour it back into the coffee pot, and repeat this step.
Place the pot on the hob but do not allow it to boil.
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
- Freshly ground coffee
- Provides the main flavour, aroma and colour of the brew.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour and aroma from the ground coffee as it steeps.
The step that matters
Keep the coffee from boiling. Boiling over-extracts the grounds, pulling out bitter compounds and producing a harsh, burnt-tasting coffee instead of a smooth one.
“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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