Coffee-starch
Ingredients
Directions
Wet the starch in enough cold water to make a smooth paste.
Stir in the boiling hot coffee until thoroughly mixed.
Boil slowly for ten minutes, stirring occasionally with a candle.
Strain and use while not too hot.
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
- Starch
- Thickens the coffee liquid as it heats, giving it a smooth, lightly body-filled texture.
The step that matters
Wet the starch into a smooth paste before adding the coffee. Starch clumps when dropped into hot liquid because its outer granules hydrate unevenly. Mixing it into cold water first separates the granules so they disperse evenly and thicken without lumps.
“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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