Coffee for One Hundred
serves 100Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Make small muslin sacks and place 1 pint of ground coffee in each, leaving room for it to swell.
In a large coffee urn or boiler with a faucet at the bottom, add 5 gallons of boiling water.
Brew
Add part of the coffee sacks and boil for 2 hours.
5 to 10 minutes before serving, raise the lid and add 1 or 2 more sacks.
Continue adding fresh sacks at regular intervals while removing the first ones, refilling with boiling water as needed.
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 flavor and aroma of the brew, with its compounds extracted into the hot water.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the extraction medium, dissolving flavor compounds from the coffee grounds.
The step that matters
Adding fresh sacks at intervals. Coffee left in hot water keeps extracting and turns bitter over time, so swapping in fresh sacks while removing spent ones helps keep the flavor balanced as the urn is held hot.
“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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