To Boil Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Put the coffee into a coffee boiler.
Heat it on the hob for five minutes.
Brew
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Set it over a low fire and stir gently to ensure all coffee grounds are saturated.
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
- Fresh ground coffee
- Provides the main flavour, as soluble compounds dissolve out of the grounds into the water.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that extracts flavour from the coffee grounds.
The step that matters
Stir gently to saturate all the grounds. Dry pockets of grounds extract unevenly, so some parts of the coffee taste weak while others taste harsh. Gentle stirring helps every grain soak so the extraction is even.
“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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