Good New England Coffee

Ingredients

• six large tablespoonfuls of best Java coffee
• half an egg
• one cup of cold water
• two and a half quarts of boiling water
• eight instead of six tablespoonfuls of coffee

Method

1. 1

   Beat the coffee into the egg and cold water.

2. 2

   Let it stand for half an hour covered.

3. 3

   Then put into a coffee-pot, pour on boiling water, and stir to prevent burning.

4. 4

   Let it scald for fifteen or twenty minutes.

5. 5

   For a nicer coffee, use eight tablespoons, boil six for twenty minutes, and add the rest five minutes before done.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 69. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Good New England Coffee. — For a family of six, take six large tablespoonfuls of best Java coffee, well browned and ground (not too fine), beat into it half an egg and one cup of cold water. After it is thoroughly beaten, let it stand half an hour well covered. Then put into coffee-pot, pour oti two and a half quarts of boiling water and put on the stove; stir once or twice at first, to prevent burning. Let it scald fifteen or twenty minutes. If desired to be very nice, beat up eight instead of six tablespoonfuls of coffee

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.