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Coffee for One Hundred

A method for brewing coffee in large quantities for 100 servings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 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 ↓

Coffee for One Hundred

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the coffee and mix it with the eggs and a little water.

  2. Make small muslin sacks, putting 1 pint of coffee into each, leaving room for it to swell.

Brew

  1. Pour 1 gallon of cold water into a large coffee urn or boiler with a faucet at the bottom.

  2. Add part of the sacks and let them stand for 30 minutes.

  3. Set over the fire, add 3 gallons of boiling water, and boil for 1 minute.

  4. Add fresh sacks as needed, removing the old ones and adding more boiling water.

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 flavour and body of the brew; it is the main element extracted into the water.
Eggs
Bind to the coffee grounds and help clarify the brew as they set, settling fine particles.

The step that matters

Set over the fire and boil for 1 minute. Boiling extracts flavour from the coffee, but boiling too long over-extracts bitter compounds and can make the brew harsh. Keep the boil brief and controlled.

“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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