After-dinner Coffee

Ingredients

• 1 cup coffee
• 1 egg slightly beaten
• 2 ounces chicory
• 4 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup cold water

Method

1. 1

   Mix coffee, chicory, egg and cold water, add boiling water, and boil for five minutes; let stand five minutes on back of range where it will keep hot.

2. 2

   Serve without sugar or cream.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 116. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 cup cold water 1 whole egg or one egg white 6 cups boiling water Mix coffee, egg and one half cup cold water, add boil- ing water, boil hard five minutes. Set on back part of range, add other half cup of cold water, let stand five minutes, and serve with hot milk, cream and sugar. Coffee No. 2 Use rule for Boiled Coffee, using six cups cold water instead of boiling water. 296 lowney's cook book Coffee No. 3 1 cup coffee 6 cups cold water Put coffee in cheese cloth bag. Tie, allowing room for coffee to swell. Place in scalded coffee pot, cover with cold water, and boil ten minutes. Remove bag, let stand two minutes on back of range, and serve with hot milk, sugar and cream. French Coffee 1 cup very finely ground or 6 cups boiling water powdered coffee Place coffee in strainer, add boiling water gradually, and refilter, if liked very strong. Iced Coffee Add hot milk to black coffee, flavor with vanilla, and sweeten to taste. Chill ; serve in glasses with a tablespoon of chopped ice in each glass. Black Coffee Allow two tablespoons of coffee for each cup of boiling water. Always make in French coffee pot. After-dinner Coffee 1 cup coffee 1 egg slightly beaten 2 ounce chicory 4 cups boiling water

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