Name: Coffee
Ingredients: 1 pound of good coffee; 1 quart of water

Coffee

about 30 cups

Ingredients

1 pound of good coffee
1 quart of water

Directions

Measure 1 pound of good coffee, which will yield about 30 cups.
Boil 1 quart of water.
Add the coffee grounds to the boiling water.
Let it steep for a few minutes, then serve.

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.

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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coffee: Provides the main flavor and aroma; its extraction into the water makes the drink.
Water: Acts as the solvent that extracts flavor compounds from the coffee grounds.

“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.