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Rich and Strong Coffee

A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee with beaten egg white and water, then boiling briefly.

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

Rich and Strong Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Beat the egg white until frothy.

  2. Mix the beaten egg white with the ground coffee.

  3. Add the cold water to the mixture.

Brew and settle

  1. Pour the boiling water in gradually while stirring.

  2. Boil for 1 minute.

  3. Remove from heat and let it settle on the hearth.

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. Coffee + eggtop 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
Provides the main coffee flavor, aroma and body once steeped in hot water.
Egg white
Its proteins bind fine grounds as they cook, so they settle and leave the coffee clearer.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor and aromatic compounds from the ground coffee.

The step that matters

Pour the boiling water in gradually while stirring. Stirring spreads the hot water through the grounds so they wet evenly and extract consistently. Pouring it all at once can leave dry clumps that brew unevenly and taste weak or harsh.

“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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