Name: For Making Coffee
Ingredients: good coffee beans; boiling water

Why it works: Coffee and beans work together. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 289 recipes. Both carry 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells green bell pepper, earthy. The science ↓

For Making Coffee

Ingredients

good coffee beans
boiling water

Directions

Select good coffee beans, removing all impurities and worthless kernels.
Roast the beans evenly to a light brown.
Grind the coffee very fine just before making.
Rinse the coffee pot with boiling water.
Fasten a flannel bag in the top of the pot using wire hooks or staples.
Add the ground coffee to the bag and pour boiling water over it.
Cover and let it leach through.
Once the water has leached through, remove the bag and serve immediately.
Do not allow the coffee to boil to preserve its aroma.

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.

Coffee + beanstop 13% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together289 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).

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