Name: Drip Coffee
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons coffee; 4 cups boiling water

Drip Coffee

Ingredients

2 tablespoons coffee
4 cups boiling water

Directions

Prepare

Select a drip coffee pot with few parts and easy to clean.

Brew

Pour the boiling water into the lower part of the coffee pot.
Add finely ground coffee to the upper section.
Cover the pot and place it over the fire.
Wait 5 to 8 minutes for the coffee to brew.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coffee: Finely ground coffee provides the flavor and aroma that the hot water extracts.
Boiling water: Hot water dissolves the soluble compounds from the ground coffee, forming the brew.

“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.