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To Eoast Coffee

A coffee beverage made by roasting coffee berries with butter and sugar, then steeping the ground coffee in boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and chicory work together. They rank in the top 11% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 50 recipes. Both carry maltol, which smells caramel, sweet. The science ↓

To Eoast Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Roast

  1. Use a Patent Roaster or Irish mop roaster.

  2. Add butter and sugar to the roaster with the coffee.

  3. Roast the coffee berries to develop aroma.

Brew

  1. Warm the coffee berries in the oven, then grind them.

  2. Place the ground coffee in a pot with a strainer covered with linen.

  3. Use 4 tablespoons of roasted coffee berries and 3 cups of boiling water.

  4. Pour in boiling water and let it steep.

  5. Fill breakfast cups with boiling milk.

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. Coffee + chicorytop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together50 recipes

    Shared aroma: maltol (caramel, sweet).

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

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

  3. Butter + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together98,233 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  4. Coffee + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  5. Sugar + chicorytop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together63 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Coffee berries
Provide the main coffee flavor, which develops during roasting.
Butter
Adds richness and a rounded, fatty mouthfeel to the roasted coffee.
Powdered sugar
Adds sweetness and helps the roasted coffee taste smoother and fuller.

The step that matters

Roast the coffee berries to develop aroma. Roasting drives the Maillard reaction and caramelization, which create the coffee's aroma and color. Under-roasting leaves it flat and grassy; over-roasting makes it bitter and burnt.

“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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