French or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
If you don't have a French coffee pot, make a small iron ring to fit the top of your coffee pot.
Fit a coffee bag into the pot and pour some boiling water into it to warm it.
Brew and serve
Add the ground coffee to the bag and pour the required amount of boiling water over it gradually.
Close the lid and let the water filter through.
Remove the bag and serve the coffee.
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
- Finely ground coffee
- Supplies the flavor compounds that the hot water extracts into the drink.
The step that matters
Pouring the boiling water gradually. Adding water slowly lets the grounds wet evenly and extract consistently. Pouring it all at once can soak some grounds unevenly and make the coffee taste harsh or weak in places.
“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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