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BreaJcfast Coffee

A method of brewing coffee by boiling water over ground coffee, served with optional sugar and cream.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Sugar and cream are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 9% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 43,450 recipes. Both carry 2,3-butanedione, which smells butter, sweet. The science ↓

BreaJcfast Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Finely grind the coffee and measure it.

  2. Put the coffee into a coffee pot.

  3. Pour boiling water over the coffee.

Brew

  1. Place the pot over the fire and let it boil up.

  2. Remove the pot from the heat and let the gas escape.

  3. Return the pot to the fire and let it boil up again.

  4. Remove from heat and let it stand for 5 minutes to settle.

Serve

  1. Serve the coffee in cups with sugar and cream if desired.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Sugar + creamtop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together43,450 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,3-butanedione (butter, sweet).

  2. Coffee + creamtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,339 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-heptanol (bitter, floral).

  3. Coffee + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4,344 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the main flavour, as its soluble compounds dissolve into the hot water.

The step that matters

Let the coffee stand to settle. Standing lets the grounds sink so the cup pours clear rather than gritty. Keep the pot off the heat during this time, because continued boiling can draw out more bitterness.

“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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