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Breakfast Coffee

A method of brewing coffee by filtering it multiple times and heating the pot.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Boil 1 quart of water until actively boiling.

  2. Place the ground coffee in a filter or strainer.

  3. Pour the boiling water into the upper strainer until the whole quart is used.

  4. Allow the coffee to filter through.

  5. Pour the filtered coffee into a saucepan and run it through the filter again.

  6. Repeat this process three times.

Heat and serve

  1. Let the coffee pot stand in boiling water for 3-4 minutes to heat.

  2. Serve the coffee in heated cups or a heated silver pot.

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 main flavour and aroma as the boiling water extracts it.
Boiling water
Extracts the soluble flavour compounds from the grounds and carries them through the filter.

The step that matters

Keeping the water actively boiling. Water must be at a full boil when poured over the grounds. Cooler water extracts coffee more weakly and produces a flatter, less aromatic 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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