Oriental Coffee
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Grind the coffee very fine, similar to the texture of Indian meal.
Place the ground coffee in a filter.
Brew
Slowly pour 1 pint of boiling water over the coffee.
Cover the filter and let it gradually filter for 20 minutes.
Keep the pot in a dish of hot water to maintain temperature.
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
- Fine ground coffee
- Provides the flavor and aroma; its fine grind lets hot water extract it evenly.
- Boiling water
- Extracts the soluble flavor compounds from the coffee grounds as it filters through.
The step that matters
Keep the pot in a dish of hot water to maintain temperature. Coffee that cools during the slow filtering loses aromatic compounds and tastes flat, while steady warmth keeps extraction and flavor consistent.
“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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