Boiled Coffee

Ingredients

• One cupful of unground coffee
• One egg
• One quart of boiling water
• Three table-spoonfuls of cold water

Method

1. 1

   Grind the coffee coarsely, and put it into the pot, which should be well scalded.

2. 2

   Beat the egg well, add to it the cold water, and stir this mixture into the dry coffee in the pot; then pour on the boiling water, and place the pot on the fire.

3. 3

   Stir the coffee until it boils, and then set it on the back of the stove where it will just bubble for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Pour a little of the coffee into a cup and return it to the pot, to clear the grounds from the spout.

5. 5

   Let the coffee stand for five minutes where it will not bubble, pour it through a fine sieve into a hot serving pot, and send to the table at once.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Pattern cook-book (1890) by Butterick Publishing Company, page 242. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILED COFFEE. (iN COMMON COFFEE-POT.) One cupful of unground coffee. One egg. One quart of boiling water. Three table-spoonfuls of cold water

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