Making Good Coffee
serves 5Ingredients
Directions
Use a universal coffee percolator for best results.
For each cup of coffee, use 1 heaping tablespoon of ground coffee.
For 5 servings, combine ½ cup of ground coffee with 1 quart of boiling water.
Ensure the water is freshly boiled before pouring it over the coffee grounds.
Drip the coffee slowly in a covered strainer to extract all the flavor.
Keep the coffee pot perfectly clean to avoid bitter or muddy flavors.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Ground coffee
- Provides the flavor compounds that the hot water extracts into the brew.
The step that matters
Drip the coffee slowly in a covered strainer. Extracting too fast or too hot pulls out bitter compounds while leaving flavor underdeveloped, so a slow, steady drip gives a balanced cup.
“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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