Name: Black, or After-dinner Coffee
Ingredients: 1 cup freshly ground coffee; 3 cups freshly boiled water

Black, or After-dinner Coffee

Ingredients

1 cup freshly ground coffee
3 cups freshly boiled water

Directions

Brew the coffee by running it through a filter three times.
Serve in small cups.
Offer sugar on the side for those who want it.

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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What each ingredient does

Freshly ground coffee: Provides the bitter, aromatic flavour that defines the drink.
Freshly boiled water: Extracts the coffee's flavour and aroma when it passes through the grounds.

“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.