Filtered Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scald the coffee pot and place it where it will stay hot.
Brew
Put the coffee and salt in the filter.
Add boiling water slowly, pouring it over the coffee a little at a time; cover the coffee pot tightly after each addition of water.
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
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the dissolved flavor compounds that make up the brew, so grind size controls extraction.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor from the grounds and carries it into the cup as the liquid of the drink.
The step that matters
Pouring the water slowly in small amounts. Pouring slowly and a little at a time lets the water wet and saturate the grounds evenly, giving steady extraction. Pouring too fast can channel water past the grounds, leaving the coffee weak and uneven.
“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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