Filtered Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Place a piece of filter paper in a strainer.
Add the coffee to the filter paper.
Hold the strainer over a hot coffee cup.
Brew
Pour the boiling water slowly over the coffee.
Keep the cup in a warm place while the coffee brews.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the flavour and body; its fine grind lets hot water extract it during brewing.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour compounds from the coffee grounds and carries them into the cup.
The step that matters
Pour the boiling water slowly over the coffee. Pouring slowly lets the water saturate the grounds evenly and extract flavour steadily. Pouring too fast can channel water past the grounds, leaving the coffee weak and uneven.
“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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