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Percolated Coffee

A simple percolated coffee made with ground coffee, sea salt, and boiling water.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Scald the percolator.

  2. Add the ground coffee and salt.

  3. Pour in the boiling water and percolate for 5 to 8 minutes. Serve.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Ground coffee
Provides the main flavor compounds, aroma, and body of the brewed drink.
Boiling water
Extracts soluble flavor compounds from the coffee grounds as it passes through them.

The step that matters

Percolating time. The water keeps cycling through the grounds while percolating, so brewing too long over-extracts bitter, astringent compounds. Keep the time within 5 to 8 minutes and taste as you go.

“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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