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Wisdom Coffee

A grain coffee made by roasting wheat, barley, rye, and brewing with a coffee blend.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Why it works: Wheat and rye match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 404 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Wisdom Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Roast the wheat, barley, and rye mixture in the oven.

  2. Measure 3 tablespoons of the coffee blend for every quart of water.

Brew

  1. Tie a flannel cloth or two layers of butter cloth over the pot.

  2. Add the finely ground cereal and pour 1 cup of water over it.

  3. Let it stand for 1 minute.

  4. Pour the remaining boiling water over the grounds.

  5. Cover tightly and set over the fire for 1 minute without boiling.

  6. Once the water drains from the grounds, remove the cloth.

Serve

  1. Serve the hot coffee with cream in the cup, pouring the coffee over it.

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. Wheat + ryetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together404 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Wheat + barleytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together185 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, fruity).

  3. Barley + ryetop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together66 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  4. Barley + coffeetop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together30 recipes

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

  5. Wheat + coffeetop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together105 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Wheat
Roasted grain that adds toasty, malty flavour to the brew.
Whole barley
Roasted grain that contributes a mild, toasty, malty flavour.
Rye
Roasted grain that adds a deeper, slightly bitter roasted flavour.

“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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