Boiled Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Brew
Mix the coffee with 1 tablespoon of cold water.
Add boiling water and let it boil for 3 minutes.
Settle and serve
Remove from heat, add another tablespoon of cold water, and let it settle for 5 minutes.
Optionally, mix in a little egg or crushed eggshells to help clarify 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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Coarsely ground coffee
- Supplies the flavor compounds that boiling water extracts into the drink.
The step that matters
Remove from heat, add cold water, and let it settle. Taking the coffee off the heat stops over-extraction, which would make it bitter. Adding cold water and resting for 5 minutes lets the grounds sink so they stay out of the 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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