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Filtered Coffee

A method of brewing coffee by pouring hot water over ground coffee in a filter.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Filtered Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Scald the coffee pot and place it where it will stay hot.

  2. Put the coffee and salt in the filter.

Brew

  1. Add boiling water slowly, pouring it over the coffee a little at a time.

  2. Cover the coffee pot tightly after each addition of water.

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

Coffee
Provides the dissolved flavor compounds that water extracts during brewing.

The step that matters

Pour the water slowly and cover the pot after each addition. Pouring a little at a time evenly wets every part of the grounds so they extract evenly. Covering the pot after each addition holds heat, keeping the brew hot enough to extract well.

“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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