Black Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place the ground coffee in the strainer of a drip coffee pot.
Pour the boiling water over the coffee.
Let it stand for 1-2 minutes after it has drained.
Serve the coffee.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the flavor compounds that hot water extracts to make the drink's taste and aroma.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor from the grounds, and its heat drives the extraction.
The step that matters
Pour the boiling water over the coffee.. Water that is just off the boil extracts flavor efficiently. Cooler water pulls out less, leaving the coffee weak and flat, while the grounds must be evenly wetted so the extraction is uniform.
“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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