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Excellent Breakfast Coffee
From Modern cookery, in all its branches, 1884
Serves 6
Ensure the filter is appropriately sized for the amount of coffee to allow proper brewing.
Presented as published in 1884. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
A modern interpretation · AI-generated from the original record
Ingredients
Method
Nutrition per serving
0Calories
0 gProtein
0 gCarbs
0 gFat
Full nutrition (34 nutrients)
Calories0.1 kcal
Protein0 g
Carbohydrates0 g
Fiber0 g
Sugars0 g
Total Fat0 g
Saturated Fat0 g
Monounsaturated Fat0 g
Polyunsaturated Fat0 g
Omega-30 g
Cholesterol0 mg
Sodium6.2 mg
Potassium8.9 mg
Calcium6.2 mg
Iron0 mg
Magnesium2.4 mg
Phosphorus0.4 mg
Zinc0 mg
Copper0 mg
Manganese0 mg
Vitamin D0 mcg
Vitamin C0 mg
Vitamin A0 mcg
Vitamin E0 mg
Vitamin K0 mcg
Vitamin B60 mg
Vitamin B120 mcg
Thiamin (B1)0 mg
Riboflavin (B2)0 mg
Niacin (B3)0 mg
Folate0.3 mcg
Choline0.4 mg
Caffeine5.7 mg
Water211 g
Estimated from matched ingredients across 6 servings.
As published
This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 509. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
EXCELLENT BREAKFAST COFFEE. A simple, well-made English filter, or percolater, as it is called, will answer perfectly for making coffee ; but from amongst the many of more recent invention which are on sale, the reader who prefers one of ornamental appearance, and of novel construction, will easily be suited. The size of the filter must be adapted to the number of persons for whom the coffee is to be prepared ; for if a large quantity of the powder be heaped into an insufficient space for it, there will not be room for it to swell, and the water will not pass through. Put three ounces of coffee into one which will contain in the lower compartment two pints and a half
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