Breakfast Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Measure the coffee and place it in the coffee pot.
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Place the pot over the heat and let it boil up.
Remove the pot from the heat and let the gas escape.
Return the pot to the heat and let it boil up again.
Remove from heat and let it stand for 5 minutes to settle before serving.
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
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the boiling water extracts into the brew.
The step that matters
Letting the gas escape before reboiling. Boiling the coffee up, then removing it from the heat to let the gas escape, keeps the brew from overflowing and over-extracting. Reboiling then finishes the infusion, and standing lets the grounds settle.
“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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