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Turkish Coffee

A coffee brewed by boiling water with sugar and ground Mocha, then poured 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. When it bubbles, remove from heat.

  4. Repeat this process 3 times.

Serve

  1. Let it settle.

  2. 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 coffee flavor and body, as the fine grounds are cooked directly in the water.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and softens the bitterness of the finely ground coffee.

The step that matters

Remove from heat when it bubbles. As the coffee nears boiling, it foams up quickly and can boil over. Removing it at the first bubbles keeps the foam, which helps give Turkish coffee its body.

“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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