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Coffee for Festivals

A method of brewing coffee using flannel bags, steeped in boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Coffee for Festivals

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Place the ground coffee into flannel bags, each holding ½ pound, and sew them tightly.

  2. Boil enough water in a large pot.

Brew

  1. Add a couple of the coffee bags to the boiling water and steep until strong.

  2. Remove the bags and add more boiling water as needed.

  3. Add another bag of coffee, steeping as before to maintain aroma and strength.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the flavor, aroma and strength of the brew as its compounds dissolve into the water.
Water
Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor from the coffee and carries it into the brew.

“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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