How to Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Boil ½ pint of water.
Add 1 tablespoon of ground coffee.
Do not grind the coffee too fine for boiling or dripping.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the coffee flavour, aroma and bitterness as its solids dissolve into the hot water.
The step that matters
Grind the coffee correctly. Very fine grounds dissolve faster and release more bitter compounds, so the coffee can taste harsh and muddy. Grinding too fine for the brewing method is the most common way this goes wrong.
“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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