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Turkish Coffee

A beverage made by boiling water with sugar and ground Mocha, then pouring into cups.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Turkish Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Brew

  1. Boil 8 cups of cold water.

  2. Add 8 teaspoons of sugar and 12 teaspoons of ground Mocha; stir well.

  3. Remove from heat when it bubbles; repeat this process 3 times.

Serve

  1. Let it settle, then pour equally into each cup.

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 mocha
Provides the main coffee flavour and aroma as it steeps in the boiling water.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps balance the bitterness of the coffee.

The step that matters

Removing from heat when it bubbles. Boiled coffee can foam over quickly and taste bitter when overheated. Lifting the pot off the heat at the first bubbles controls the foam and the extraction.

“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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