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Oriental Coffee

A filtered coffee steeped for 20 minutes using fine ground coffee and boiling water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Oriental Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Make the coffee

  1. Grind the coffee very fine, similar to the texture of Indian meal.

  2. Place the ground coffee in a filter.

  3. Slowly pour 1 pint of boiling water over the coffee.

  4. Cover the filter and let it sit for 20 minutes to allow the water to pass through.

Serve

  1. Serve the coffee in a pot kept warm in a dish of hot water.

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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What each ingredient does

Fine ground coffee
Provides the main coffee flavor and body; a fine grind extracts flavor readily from the boiling water.

The step that matters

Pouring the boiling water slowly. Pouring slowly lets the water saturate the grounds evenly and extract flavor steadily, rather than channeling through quickly and leaving the coffee weak or 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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