Filtered or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Sew a small muslin bag to fit the top of the coffee pot inside a small iron ring.
Warm the coffee pot by pouring in some boiling water.
Place the ground coffee into the muslin bag.
Brew and serve
Pour the required amount of boiling water over the coffee gradually.
Close the lid and wait for all the water to filter through.
Remove the bag and serve the coffee.
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 main coffee flavour and aroma that the water extracts.
- Boiling water
- Extracts soluble flavour compounds from the grounds as it passes through them.
- Mocha coffee
- Adds its own flavour to the blend, contributing to the final taste.
- Java coffee
- Adds its own flavour to the blend, contributing body and character to the final taste.
The step that matters
Pouring the boiling water gradually. Pouring slowly lets the water wet all the grounds evenly and extract flavour steadily. Pouring too fast can channel water past the grounds, leaving the brew weak and uneven.
“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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