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Good Breakfast Coffee

A coffee brewed with boiling water and ground coffee, served with boiling milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and milk are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,202 recipes. Both carry 4-heptenal, which smells creamy, biscuit. The science ↓

Good Breakfast Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Gradually add boiling water to the ground coffee in a percolator.

  2. Let the coffee drain completely before adding more water.

  3. Once all water has passed through, cover the coffee and serve immediately.

Combine and serve

  1. Fill breakfast cups two-thirds full with boiling milk.

  2. Add the coffee infusion to the milk to achieve desired strength.

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. Coffee + milktop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,202 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-heptenal (creamy, biscuit).

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

What each ingredient does

Best mocha coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor and aroma in the infusion.
Milk
Adds richness and mellows the bitterness of the coffee.

The step that matters

Let the coffee drain completely before adding more water. Adding water before the grounds have fully drained can over-extract the coffee and make the brew bitter and uneven in strength.

“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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