French Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Grind the coffee to the fineness of granulated cornmeal.
Place the ground coffee in the coffeepot.
Brew
Pour boiling water over the coffee.
For a stronger coffee, pour boiling water over the coffee a second time, but note it may affect the flavor.
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
- Ground coffee
- Provides the main flavor, with grind size controlling how much is extracted into the cup.
- Boiling water
- Extracts flavor compounds from the ground coffee as it steeps.
The step that matters
Pouring boiling water over the coffee. Water that is near boiling extracts flavor efficiently. Cooler water pulls out less of the coffee's flavor and leaves the cup weak, while a second pour adds more extraction and can make the coffee harsher or 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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