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Cereal Coffee

A hot beverage made by mixing cereal coffee with cold water, then boiling with water and serving with milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Cereal Coffee

Cereal Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Mix cereal coffee and cold water.

  2. Add boiling water and boil very gently for 15 minutes.

Settle and serve

  1. Let it settle for 2 minutes and serve very hot with hot milk.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cereal coffee
Supplies the roasted, coffee-like flavour and dark colour of the drink.

The step that matters

Boil very gently for 15 minutes. A gentle simmer extracts flavour steadily while limiting evaporation. A hard boil drives off volatile aromas and can over-extract bitter compounds, so the coffee tastes harsher and thinner.

“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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