Breakfast Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Measure the coffee and place it in the coffee pot.
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Place the pot over the fire and let it boil.
Remove from heat when it boils, allowing steam to escape.
Return to heat and let it boil again.
Remove from heat and let it stand for 5 minutes to settle.
Serve the coffee in cups.
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
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the water extracts into the brew.
The step that matters
Removing the pot from heat as it boils. Pulling the pot off heat lets steam escape and stops the coffee from boiling over or turning bitter, and the brief rest lets grounds settle to the bottom.
“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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