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Boiled Coffee

A beverage made by boiling coffee with water, cream, and milk, then partially removing and reheating.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Boiled Coffee

Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the coffee pot with boiling water.

  2. Stir in the coffee.

Boil and keep hot

  1. Boil for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  2. Five minutes before serving, pour out half a teacupful and return it to the pot.

  3. Set the pot near the fire to keep it hot without boiling.

  4. Serve directly from the coffee pot.

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 + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Cream + milktop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together29,399 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the main flavour; boiling extracts it into the water.
Boiling water
Extracts the coffee's flavour and heats the pot before brewing.
Thick sweet cream
Adds richness and softens the bitterness of the coffee.
Boiled milk
Adds creaminess and mellows the coffee's sharp edges.

The step that matters

Keeping the coffee just below a boil after brewing. Once the coffee has boiled for 20 minutes, further boiling makes it increasingly bitter and can drive off aroma. Holding it hot without boiling keeps the flavour smoother until serving.

“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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