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A coffee beverage made by mixing ground coffee, egg, cold water, and boiling water, then simmering.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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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 ↓

Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Stir the egg and coffee together well.

  2. Add the cold water and place on the stove.

  3. When it begins to boil, add the boiling water.

  4. Let it simmer for about five minutes.

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

Egg
Its proteins coagulate as the coffee heats, binding fine grounds so they settle and clarify the brew.
Coffee
Provides the main flavour and aroma; fine grounds extract fully and give a strong, rich body.

The step that matters

Letting it simmer for about five minutes. Heating the egg and grounds together lets the egg proteins set and collect the fine coffee particles. Boiling too hard or too long can break up the clumps and leave the brew cloudy and bitter.

“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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