Soyer's Cafe au Lait

Ingredients

• One cup' of best ' coffee
• two cups of boiling water
• one quart of boiling milk

Method

1. 1

   Put the coffee in a clean, dry kettle, or tin pail; cover it closely, and set in a saucepan of boiling water.

2. 2

   Shake it every few minutes, without opening it, until the coffee grains are heated through.

3. 3

   Pour over them the boiling water directly from the tea-kettle.

4. 4

   Cover the inner vessel closely, and set on the side of the range for twenty minutes.

5. 5

   Then add the boiling milk; let all stand together for five minutes, and strain through thin muslin into the coffee urn.

6. 6

   Use loaf sugars for sweetening.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housekeeper's companion (1883), page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soyer's Cafe au Lait. — One cup' of best ' coffee, freshly roasted, but unground, two cups of boiling water, one quart of \)oiling mil

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