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A brewed beverage made from ground coffee and cold water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Coffee

Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Put the ground coffee into a coffee pot.

  2. Add cold water, allowing a little more than needed.

  3. Boil for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.

  4. Serve hot.

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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What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the main flavor and aroma, which are extracted into the boiling water.

“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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