Filtered or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the filter
Make a small iron ring to fit the top of the coffee pot inside.
Sew a small muslin bag to the ring, ensuring the muslin is not too thin.
Fit the bag into the pot and pour some boiling water into it to warm the pot.
Brew
Add the ground coffee into the bag.
Pour the required amount of boiling water over the coffee gradually.
Close the lid and wait for all the water to filter through.
Remove the bag and serve the coffee.
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 flavour compounds that the hot water extracts into the brewed drink.
- Boiling water
- Acts as the solvent that dissolves flavour and aroma compounds from the ground coffee.
The step that matters
Pour the water gradually over the coffee. Pouring slowly and evenly wets all the grounds so they extract uniformly. Pouring too fast can channel water past the grounds, leaving the brew weak and under-extracted.
“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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