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To Roast Coffee

A method for roasting coffee beans and brewing them into a beverage.

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

Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

To Roast Coffee

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the beans

  1. Pick out the black or imperfect grains from the coffee.

  2. Put the coffee in a pan and stir continuously while roasting until it is the color of a ripe chestnut.

  3. About ten minutes before it is done, add the butter.

  4. While hot, transfer the coffee to a box and cover it closely.

Make the coffee

  1. Beat the egg and mix it with the ground coffee and just enough cold water to moisten it.

  2. Stir the mixture well and place it in your coffee pot.

  3. Pour the boiling water over the mixture and let it boil hard for 10 to 15 minutes.

  4. Stir frequently and do not leave it until the grounds sink.

  5. Be careful not to let the coffee boil over.

  6. Rinse your coffee pot with boiling water, pour in the coffee, and serve it hot.

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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Explore the science

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. Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together118,967 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

  2. Coffee + buttertop 23% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,442 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-furfurylthiol (coffee, roasted).

  3. 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; roasting develops its color and aroma.
Butter
Added near the end of roasting to add richness and fat to the beans.
Egg
Beaten and mixed with the grounds to help bind them and settle the brew.
Boiling water
Extracts flavor from the coffee grounds during brewing.

The step that matters

Stir frequently and do not leave it until the grounds sink. Boiling hard can make the coffee foam and boil over, and the grounds need stirring to extract evenly. Letting it sit unattended risks bitterness and overflow.

“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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