Name: Dripped Coffee
Ingredients: finely ground coffee; boiling water

Dripped Coffee

Ingredients

finely ground coffee
boiling water

Directions

Place finely ground coffee in a coffee strainer, using the same proportion as desired.
Set the pot on the stove and pour boiling water over the coffee.
The coffee is ready as soon as the water drips through.

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

Finely ground coffee: Provides the flavour compounds that hot water extracts into the drink.
Boiling water: Extracts flavour from the coffee grounds and carries it through into the cup.

“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.