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To Make Filtered Coffee

Filtered coffee made by pouring boiling water over ground coffee in a cloth or strainer and filtering multiple times.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the coffee as fine as possible.

  2. Place the coffee in a cloth or strainer in the top of the pot.

Brew

  1. Pour the boiling water over the coffee and let it filter slowly.

  2. Once all the water has filtered through, heat the pot until the coffee is bubbling.

  3. Pour the coffee out and return it to the top of the pot to filter again. Repeat this process three times in total.

Serve

  1. Serve immediately for the best 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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Supplies the flavor compounds that the hot water extracts as it passes through.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the grounds and carries it through the filter into the pot.

The step that matters

Heating the filtered coffee until bubbling. Coffee that reaches a rolling boil or is held too hot for long can scorch and taste bitter. Heat only until bubbling, since extra heat pulls harsh, burnt-tasting compounds out of the grounds.

“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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