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To Make Coffee

A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee with an egg and steeping in boiling water.

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

Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

To Make Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Grind coffee fresh each day.

  2. Mix ground coffee with the egg, shell included, and wet with cold water.

  3. Pour boiling water over the mixture, cover tightly, and steep for 20 minutes without boiling.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Egg
Its proteins bind fine coffee grounds as they steep, helping the mixture settle and clarifying the brew.
Ground coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor, extracted into the hot water during steeping.

The step that matters

Steep covered without boiling. Boiling water over the egg and grounds can overextract bitterness and cook the egg unevenly. Covering keeps heat in, so the mixture steeps gently and the grounds settle cleanly.

“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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