To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Make the coffee
Put the coffee into a coffee pot.
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
Boil for 6 minutes.
Pour out a cupful 2-3 times and return it to the pot.
Clarify and keep hot
Add isinglass clips and a large spoonful of boiling water.
Boil for 5 more 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 that the brew is built on.
- Isinglass clips
- Collects fine grounds as it settles, leaving the coffee clearer.
The step that matters
Returning the poured-out coffee to the pot. Pouring the coffee out and back several times mixes the brew and wets the grounds so flavour extracts evenly. Pouring too few times can leave the coffee 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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