Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Put the coffee in a pot with the cold water.
Hang the pot over the fire and watch until the water begins to bubble.
Remove the pot from the fire and let it stand for five minutes.
Pour a tablespoon of cold water down the spout to settle the grounds.
Do not let the coffee boil.
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
- Coffee
- Supplies the flavour and aroma compounds that are extracted into the hot water.
The step that matters
Do not let the coffee boil. Boiling over-extracts bitter compounds from the grounds and drives off volatile aromatics, so the cup tastes harsh and flat.
“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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