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Coffee for Parties

A method of brewing coffee by mixing ground coffee with an egg, boiling in a sack, and keeping hot.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Coffee and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 29% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 3,239 recipes. Both carry 2-nonenal, which smells fatty, green. The science ↓

Coffee for Parties

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Mix the coffee and egg thoroughly.

  2. Place the mixture in a coffee sack.

Brew and hold

  1. Submerge the sack in boiling water.

  2. Boil slowly until the desired strength is reached.

  3. Remove the sack and keep the coffee hot until needed.

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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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Coffee + eggtop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together3,239 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the main flavor and the dissolved compounds that give the brew its strength.
Egg
Its proteins help bind the coffee grounds so they settle and the brew runs clearer.

The step that matters

Boil slowly until the desired strength is reached.. Extraction continues the longer the coffee simmers, so strength rises steadily, and over-boiling pulls out more bitter compounds. Tasting as you go prevents an overly harsh cup.

“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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