Coffee Ice a la Octavious

Ingredients

• one and a half cups ground coffee
• white of one egg
• one and a half cups cold water
• four to five cups of boiling water
• one cup granulated sugar
• two tablespoons brandy

Method

1. 1

   Put ground coffee in a coffee pot, add egg white, then cold water, mix well, leave on stove to draw about fifteen minutes.

2. 2

   Pour on boiling water, let simmer about eight minutes (do not let it boil).

3. 3

   Strain.

4. 4

   To the coffee, add sugar and flavor with brandy; let stand until cold.

5. 5

   Put in a freezer, pack in ice and salt, let freeze until hard.

6. 6

   Serve in glasses with sweetened whipped cream on top.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Swedish, French, American cook book (1918) by Hammond, Maria Mathilda (Ericsson) Mrs., page 476. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

one and a half cups ground coffee in a coffee pot, add white of one egg, then one and a half cups cold water, mix well, leave on stove to draw about fifteen minutes. Pour on four to five cups of boiling water, let simmer about eight minutes (take care not to let it boil). Then strain. To five cups of the coffee add one cup granulated sugar; flavor with two tablespoons brandy

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