Iced Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Pour strong coffee over cracked ice.
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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