The Best Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Use an aluminum pot with a percolator if possible.
Add 1 tablespoon of coffee for each person and pour in boiling water.
Brew
Allow to boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
Pour out a cupful of coffee two or three times while boiling.
Pour the coffee back through the percolator to enhance its strength.
Serve
Serve immediately; do not let the coffee stand.
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
- Coffee
- Provides the main flavor and aroma as boiling water extracts it from the grounds.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor and color from the coffee grounds during brewing.
The step that matters
Serve immediately; do not let the coffee stand.. Coffee left sitting over the grounds keeps extracting, which makes it progressively more bitter and less pleasant.
“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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