French Coffee
From A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl, 1905
Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from A Little Cook-Book for a Little Girl (1905) by Caroline French Benton, page 13. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
French coffee. Coffee First be sure your coffee-pot is shining clean ; look in the spout and in all the cracks, and wipe them out carefully, for you cannot make good coffee except in a perfectly clean pot. Then get three heaping tablespoonfuls of ground coffee, and one tablespoonful of cold water, and one teaspoonful of white of egg. Mix the egg with the coffee and water thoroughly, and put in the FOR A LITTLE GIRL 51 pot. Pour in one quart of boiling water, and let it boil up once. Then stir down the grounds which come to the top, put in two tablespoonfuls of cold water, and let it stand for a minute on the back of the stove, and then strain it into the silver pot for the tabic. This pot must be made very hot, by filling it with boiling water and letting it stand on the kitchen table while the coffee is boiling. If this rule makes the coffee stronger than the family like it, take less coffee, and if it is not strong enough, take more coffee. French Coffee Get one of the pots which are made so the coffee will drip through ; put three tablespoon- fuls of very finely powdered coffee in this, and pour in a quart of boiling water
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