To Make Coffee

Ingredients

• one-half ounce of ground coffee
• one-third pint of water

Method

1. 1

   Pour boiling water over ground coffee and allow it to filter through.

2. 2

   Serve hot, preferably in the same vessel.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 349. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To MAKE Coffee. — Allow one-half ounce, or one tablespoonful of ground coffee to each person ; to every ounce of coffee allow one- third pint of water. To make coffee good it should never be boiled, but the boiling water merely poured on it, the same as for tea. The coffee should always be purchased in the berry — if possible, freshly roasted ; and it should never be ground long before it is wanted for use. There are very many new kinds of coffee-pots, but the method of making the coffee is nearly always the same, namely, pouring the boiling water on the powder, and allowing it to filter through. Coffee should always be served very hot, and, if possible, in the same vessel in which it is made, as pouring it from one pot to another cools, and consequently spoils it. Many persons may think that the proportion of water we have given for each ounce of coffee is rather small. It is so, and the coffee produced from it will be very strong; one-third of a cup will be found quite sufficient, which should be filled up with nice hot milk, or milk and cream mixed. Should the ordinary method of making coffee be preferred, use dou- ble the quantity of water, and, in pouring it into the cups, put in more coffee and less milk. Another Mode of making Coffee. — Put a quarter of a pound of fresh-roasted coffee (this will be sufficient for three persons) in a basin, and break into it an egg — yolk, white, shell and all; mix it up with the spoon to the consi.stence of mortar. Put warm, not boiling, water in the coffee-pot; let it boil up and break three times; then stand a few minutes and it will be as clear as amber, and the egg will give it a rich taste. The rank flavor often observed in coffee may be sometimes justly referred to the tin coffee-pot in which it is boiled and allowed to re- main a while. An earthen or porcelain-lined vessel is the best for makingr coffee. o Nutritious Coffee. — Half an ounce of ground coffee

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