Filtered or Drip Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the filter
Prepare a small iron ring to fit the top of the coffee pot.
Sew a small muslin bag to the ring, ensuring the muslin is not too thin.
Brew
Fit the bag in the pot and pour in some boiling water to warm it.
Add the ground coffee to the bag.
Pour boiling water over the coffee in the bag.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Finely ground coffee
- Provides the flavour and aroma that the hot water extracts from the grounds.
- Boiling water
- Dissolves the flavour compounds from the coffee grounds as it passes through them.
The step that matters
Sew the muslin bag with cloth that is not too thin. A thin muslin lets fine coffee particles pass through into the pot, making the drink cloudy and gritty. A sturdier weave holds the grounds back while the water still flows freely.
“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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