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Coffee, Black

A simple black coffee made by boiling water, adding coffee grounds, and straining.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Coffee, Black

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil 1 pint of water.

  2. Add 1 heaped tablespoon of coffee.

  3. Prepare in the usual way and strain to remove grounds.

  4. Serve without sugar.

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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What each ingredient does

Coffee
Provides the bitter, aromatic flavour that the water extracts when brewed.

“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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