Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the coffee
Heat the ground coffee in a pan over medium heat, stirring constantly until hot but not burnt.
Quickly pour the boiling water over the hot coffee.
Brew and serve
Cover immediately and keep it near the fire.
Pour into cups without shaking the grounds.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma that the hot water draws out.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that dissolves flavor compounds from the grounds.
The step that matters
Pour into cups without shaking the grounds. Fine coffee grounds settle to the bottom while the liquid rests. Shaking or stirring them back up makes the cup cloudy and gritty, and it can bring out 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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