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Iced Coffee

A chilled coffee served over cracked ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Iced Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour strong coffee over cracked ice.

  2. Strain and serve like iced tea.

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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What each ingredient does

Strong coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor and caffeine base of the drink.
Cracked ice
Chills the coffee rapidly and dilutes it slightly as it melts, softening its bitterness.

“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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