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Cereal Coffee

A hot beverage made by mixing cereal coffee with cold water, adding boiling water, and boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Cereal Coffee

Cereal Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the cereal coffee with cold water.

  2. Add the boiling water.

  3. Boil for 20 minutes.

  4. Let it settle for 5 minutes.

  5. Serve very hot.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cereal coffee
Provides the roasted, coffee-like flavour and colour of the drink.

The step that matters

Mixing the cereal coffee with cold water before adding the boiling water. Mixing the grounds into cold water first wets them evenly so they do not clump when hot water is added. Clumped grounds extract unevenly, giving a weak or lumpy result.

“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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