To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Place the ground coffee in a muslin bag or a patent coffee pot with a wire strainer.
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Let it steep for about 10 minutes without boiling.
Remove the bag or strainer containing the coffee.
Keep the pot hot until served.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the flavor compounds that dissolve into the water during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor from the coffee grounds and dissolves them into the brew.
The step that matters
Letting it steep without boiling. Boiling the coffee while it steeps can over-extract bitter compounds and make the brew harsh. Keeping the water just below boiling extracts flavor more evenly and gives a smoother cup.
“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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