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To Make Coffee

A coffee beverage made with roasted coffee, egg yolk, egg white, crushed egg shell, and warm water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 5 ingredients
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To Make 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 ↓

To Make Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Grind the coffee just before using.

  2. In a basin, mix the coffee with the egg yolk, egg white, and crushed egg shell until it resembles mortar.

  3. Add warm water to the mixture in a coffee pot.

Brew and clarify

  1. Bring to a boil and allow it to boil up three times.

  2. Let it stand for a few minutes until clear.

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

Coffee
Provides the main flavor and the body of the brewed drink.
Egg white
Coagulates as it heats, gathering fine grounds so the coffee becomes clear.

The step that matters

Letting the coffee stand after boiling. The egg white sets as the coffee heats and traps fine grounds. Standing lets this sediment settle, so the coffee clears. Serving too early leaves it cloudy and gritty.

“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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