Filtered Coffee

Ingredients

• 1 rounding tb of coffee
• 1 cup boiling water

Method

1. 1

   Place coffee in the strainer, add water, and allow to filter until all water has passed through.

2. 2

   Serve at once with cream and sugar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic science (1914 text-book) (1914) by Bertha J. Hoisington Austin, page 65. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

filtered coffee is more healthful than boiled coffee; it has the caffeine extracted, but not the tannin. Much has been said both for and against the use of coffee as a beverage. If an adult is perfectly healthy, moderate amounts of coffee of medium strength will not be injurious; but the stimulating effects of coffee are harmful to children and to all nervous, delicate people, hence they should never use it. Serving: Coffee is used at breakfast and din- ner by most people. Some people like the coffee with their dinner, others pre- FiG. 77.-An After-dinner Coffee Service f^^. ^^ y^^^^ j^ ^^^ the dessert. At a formal dinner, very strong coffee is made and served without cream, but with or without sugar as the individual prefers. Such coffee is called cafe noir, or black coffee. It is served in very small coffee cups, or after-dinner coffee cups. When cream and sugar are served with coffee, many think the flavor of the coffee is improved if they are placed in the cup before the coffee is poured in. Table manners: Rule: Coffee, tea, and cocoa should be drunk from the cup. The spoon is used to stir coffee and to sip it in order to ascertain if the flavor is right, but should not be otherwise used with coffee or tea. It seems unnecessary to state that these beverages are never to be drunk from the saucer. Cleaning up: 1. Empty the coffee grounds into the garbage can. Digitized by Google BEVERAGES 171 2. Soak the cup in which the egg and coffee were mixed in cold water. 3. Wash the coffee pot in warm, clean, soapy water, being careful to cleanse the inside and the spout well, and rinse in hot water. 4. Wipe the pot dry inside and out and place in its proper place. 5. Wash the other dishes as before directed. Note to Teacher: If the laboratory is not supplied with coffee pots, the granite pans, covered, will do just as well. What has been learned : 1. Coffee contains three compounds; caffeine, tannin, and aromatic oils. 2. Caffeine is the stimulating principle, tannin is poisonous and bitter, the aromatic oils give to coffee its aroma. 3. Filtered coffee is less harmful than boiled coffee. 4. Nervous people and children should not drink coffee. 5. The harm arising from leaving the grounds in the coffee pot for several days at a time. Filtered Coffee Materials used: 1 rounding tb of coffee 1 cup boiling water

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