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To Make Coffee

A beverage made by mixing coffee with a whole egg, then adding boiling water and simmering briefly.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Make Coffee

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 ↓

To Make Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the brew

  1. Mix the coffee with the whole egg in a pot.

  2. Pour boiling water over the mixture and stir well.

Heat and serve

  1. Bring the mixture just to a boil.

  2. Let it stand for five minutes before serving.

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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Explore the science

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 roasted, bitter flavour of the drink.
Whole egg
Its proteins set as they heat, trapping fine grounds and clarifying the coffee while adding body.

The step that matters

Bring the mixture just to a boil. Egg proteins set and curdle when overheated, so the mixture should reach a boil only briefly. Heating it too hard or too long can turn the egg grainy and cloud the drink.

“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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