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After Dinner Coffee

A strong coffee made by filtering 2 tablespoons of very finely ground coffee with boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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After Dinner Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make as Filtered Coffee.

  2. For very strong coffee, increase the amount of coffee to 2½ tablespoons or filter twice.

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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What each ingredient does

Very finely ground coffee
Provides the flavour and strength of the brew; a finer grind extracts more quickly and fully.

“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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