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Coffee By Percolation

A method of brewing coffee by percolating water through ground coffee.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Coffee By Percolation

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Place the coffee in the top of your percolator and press it down.

  2. Cover it with the upper sieve.

  3. Pour in the boiled water a little at a time, covering the pot closely each time while the water drips through.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately.

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

Finely ground coffee
Provides the flavour compounds that the hot water extracts into the brew.
Freshly boiled water
Acts as the solvent that dissolves coffee flavour and carries it through the grounds.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiled water a little at a time. Adding water gradually and keeping the pot covered lets it drip evenly through the grounds, so extraction stays steady and the coffee does not turn bitter or weak.

“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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