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After-dinner Coffee

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Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Water
  2. three tablespoons of finely ground coffee

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. The best after-dinner coffee is made with a filter.
  2. If really black coffee is desired, use three tablespoons of finely ground coffee to each cup of freshly boiled water.
  3. Wet the strainer in cold water before adding the coffee.
  4. Pour the boiling water slowly upon the coffee, and leave the pot over the heat while the water is finding its way through the fine grains and absorbing their flavor.
  5. When all the liquid has dripped through, the coffee is done and should be served at once.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
  • Kettle
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Credit

From The New Butterick Cook Book (1924), printed page 604, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/butterick.cookbook.1924

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.