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Boiled Coffee

A beverage made by boiling coffee grounds with egg white and water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and coffee 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 ↓

Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the ground coffee with the egg white and ¼ cup of cold water in a bowl.

  2. Transfer the mixture to a scalded pot and pour in boiling water.

Brew

  1. Boil for three minutes.

  2. Remove from heat.

  3. Add two tablespoons of cold water.

Settle and serve

  1. Let it settle for ten minutes.

  2. Pour the coffee from the grounds.

  3. Serve.

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. Egg + coffeetop 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
Supplies the flavor that is extracted into the hot water.
Egg white
Coagulates as it heats and traps fine grounds, clarifying the coffee.

The step that matters

Let it settle for ten minutes. The egg white and fine grounds coagulate and sink slowly. Pouring before they have settled can carry sediment into the cup and leave the coffee 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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