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Steamed Coffee

A method of preparing coffee by boiling, adding cold water to settle, and seasoning with a pinch of salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Steamed Coffee

Steamed Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the coffee.

  2. If needed, take a little cold water in a cup held high above the coffee pot and pour it in to settle the coffee.

  3. Add a pinch of salt for flavor.

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

Coffee
Provides the main flavor and aroma of the drink.

The step that matters

Pouring the cold water in from a height. Pouring cold water from above into the boiling coffee settles the grounds to the bottom of the pot. Pouring it in slowly from a height, rather than dumping it in, keeps the grounds from being stirred back up and makes the coffee clearer.

“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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