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Fob Boiled Coffee

Coffee made by boiling ground coffee with beaten eggs and crushed eggshells, then clearing it with cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 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 ↓

Fob Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald a granite-ware coffee pot.

  2. Wash the eggs.

  3. Break the eggs and beat slightly.

  4. Dilute the beaten eggs with 1 cup of cold water.

  5. Add crushed eggshells.

  6. Mix the egg mixture with the coffee.

  7. Pour the mixture into the coffee pot.

Brew

  1. Add boiling water.

  2. Stir thoroughly.

  3. Place the pot on the front of the range and boil for 3 minutes.

  4. Cover the spout with soft paper to retain aroma.

  5. Stir and pour some coffee into a cup to remove grounds from the spout.

  6. Return the coffee to the pot and repeat.

  7. Add the remaining cold water to help clear the coffee.

  8. Place the pot on the back of the range for 10 minutes without boiling.

Serve

  1. Serve with cream or milk and sugar.

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 coffee flavor and aroma in the brew.
Eggs
Egg proteins bind to the grounds and help settle them, clearing the coffee.

The step that matters

Place the pot on the back of the range for 10 minutes without boiling.. Holding the coffee just below boiling lets the grounds and egg mixture settle without over-extracting bitterness. Boiling again would keep the grounds suspended and make the coffee harsh and 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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