Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

• one cupful of roasted coffee
• one egg well beaten
• three table-spoonfuls of cold water
• one quart of boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Heat the coffee in a frying pan until hot.

2. 2

   Grind it coarse and place in a coffee pot.

3. 3

   Mix the beaten egg with cold water and stir into the coffee.

4. 4

   Pour boiling water over it and boil, then simmer for ten minutes.

5. 5

   Strain into a hot coffee pot and serve immediately.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Parloa's kitchen companion (1887) by Maria Parloa, page 434. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Boiled Coffee. There are many methods of making coffee, but the simplest is the best. Coffee made in the French biggin is smooth, clear, and of good flavor. That which is boiled is cleared with various substances. It has a different flavor from the filtered coffee. Many people use the boiled coffee for breakfast and the filtered coffee for dinner. Put one cupful of roasted coffee into a small frying- pan, and stir it over the fire until hot, being careful not to burn it. Grind the coffee rather coarse, and put it in a common coffee-pot. Beat one egg well, and add three table-spoonfuls of cold water to it. Stir this mixture into the coffee. Pour one quart of boiling water

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