Name: Coffee, Simple Method
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon ground coffee per person; ½ pint boiling water for each tablespoon of coffee

Coffee, Simple Method

Ingredients

1 tablespoon ground coffee per person
½ pint boiling water for each tablespoon of coffee

Directions

Prepare

Prepare a small muslin bag and fit it into the coffee pot.
Warm the pot with boiling water, then discard the water.
Add the ground coffee to the bag in the pot.

Brew and serve

Pour the boiling water over the coffee gradually.
Close the lid and let the water filter through.
Remove the bag and serve the coffee.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee: Provides the flavour and aroma of the drink; its strength depends on how much is used.
Boiling water: Extracts flavour from the ground coffee as it passes through, carrying it into the drink.

“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.