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Good New England Coffee

A coffee preparation that steepes ground coffee with cold water and an egg, then adds boiling water.

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 ↓

Good New England Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the coffee

  1. In a bowl, combine the coffee, half an egg, and cold water, then beat thoroughly.

  2. Let it stand covered for 30 minutes.

Brew

  1. Pour the mixture into a coffee pot.

  2. Add boiling water.

  3. Stir once or twice to prevent burning.

  4. Let it scald for 15 to 20 minutes.

  5. Use 8 tablespoons of coffee.

  6. Boil 6 tablespoons for 20 minutes.

  7. Add the remaining coffee 5 minutes before it's done.

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

Coffee
Provides the main flavor, aroma and body of the drink.
Egg
Binds fine grounds so they settle, leaving the coffee clearer.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the grounds during the scalding step.

The step that matters

Scalding without a hard boil. Coffee held at a gentle scald extracts flavor evenly, while a rolling boil over-extracts bitterness and can scorch the grounds, which is why the recipe stirs to prevent burning.

“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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