To Make Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Roast coffee berries weekly and grind just before use.
Warm a fireproof china coffee pot with boiling water and discard the water.
Add the coffee to the strainer and press it down.
Brew
Pour ⅓ pint of fast-boiling water slowly through the strainer.
Cover with the lid and keep the pot on the stove.
Add more boiling water as needed over 20 to 30 minutes.
Serve
Before serving, remove both strainers and cover the lower pot.
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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Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Coffee
- Its soluble flavour compounds dissolve into hot water, supplying the brew's aroma, body and bitterness.
The step that matters
Pour the water slowly through the strainer. A slow, even pour wets all the grounds evenly so they extract uniformly. Pouring too fast channels water through gaps, leaving weak, under-extracted coffee while the rest of the bed stays underdeveloped.
“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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