To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Brew
Put the coffee into a coffee pot and pour boiling water over it.
Boil for 6 minutes.
Pour out a cupful 2-3 times and return it to the pot.
Clarify and rest
Add isinglass chips and a large spoonful of boiling water.
Boil for an additional 5 minutes.
Set the pot by the fire to keep hot for 10 minutes.
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 coffee flavour and aroma as hot water extracts its soluble compounds.
- Isinglass
- Acts as a fining agent, gathering fine grounds so they settle and the coffee clears.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavour from the grounds and keeps the brew hot during steeping.
The step that matters
Adding the isinglass and boiling water. Isinglass must be dissolved evenly into the hot coffee so it can bind the fine grounds. If it is unevenly mixed, pockets stay cloudy and grounds fail to settle, leaving the coffee murky.
“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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