Good Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Heat the water
Boil 1 gallon of water for 3 minutes.
Let it stand hot for 15 minutes.
Finish
Drain the coffee to serve.
For 'Cafe Noir', use 2 tablespoons of coffee per cup.
Brew
Press the coffee slightly in the strainer.
Pour boiling water over the coffee and let it drip for about 8 minutes.
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
What each ingredient does
- Finely pulverized coffee
- Provides the flavor compounds that dissolve into the hot water during brewing.
The step that matters
Pouring the boiling water and letting it drip. Water that is too hot or too long in contact with the grounds pulls out bitter compounds, while too little time leaves the coffee weak and flat.
“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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