To Make Ordinary Breakfast Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Brew
Place the ground coffee in the upper vessel of a French coffee pot with the strainer over it.
Slowly pour a little boiling water over the coffee.
After five minutes, pour the rest of the boiling water into the pot.
Keep warm and strengthen
Keep the pot warm without boiling the coffee.
Take about 3 cups of coffee from the bottom and strain it through the top again.
Repeat this once more to strengthen the coffee.
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
- Supplies the flavor compounds that hot water extracts during steeping.
- Boiling water
- Dissolves flavor compounds from the grounds, and its heat speeds extraction.
The step that matters
Keep the pot warm without boiling the coffee. Boiling can over-extract the grounds and scorch the brew, making it taste bitter. Holding it just below boiling keeps the flavor balanced while it steeps.
“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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