Name: Turkish Coffee
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon finely ground coffee; 1 cup cold water

Turkish Coffee

Ingredients

1 tablespoon finely ground coffee
1 cup cold water

Directions

Combine the finely ground coffee and cold water in a pot.
Heat the mixture until it reaches the boiling point.
Serve immediately without cream or sugar.

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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What each ingredient does

Finely ground coffee: Provides the coffee flavour and body that the water extracts during heating.
Cold water: Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the ground coffee as it heats.

“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.