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Percolated Coffee

A simple percolated coffee made with ground coffee, 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, then 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
Supplies the flavour compounds that the hot water extracts into the brew.

The step that matters

Percolate for the right time. The brew cycles repeatedly through near-boiling water, so extraction keeps going. Percolating too long over-extracts bitter compounds, while stopping too early leaves the coffee weak. Stay within the 5 to 8 minute window.

“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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