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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Sugar
  2. Butter
  3. Cream
  4. Water
  5. two ounces of fresh-ground coffee
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Cook safely

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

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • 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. Put two ounces of fresh-ground coffee, of the best quality, into a coffee pot, and pour eight coffee cups of boiling water on it.
  2. Let it boil six minutes, and return it;
  3. then put in two or three chips of isinglass, and pour on it one large spoonful of boiling water.
  4. Boil it five miffutes more, and set the pot by the fire for ten minutes to keep it hot: the coffee will then be of a beautiful clearness.
  5. Fine cream should always be served with coffee, and either pounded sugarcandy, or fine Lisbon sugar.
  6. If for foreigners, or those who like it very strong, make only eight dishes from three ounces.
  7. If not fresh roasted, lay it before the fire until perfectly hot and dry;
  8. or put the smallest bit of fresh butter into a preserving pan, and when hot, throw the coffee into it, and toss it about until it be freshened, but let it be quite cold before H~is ground.—But as coffee pos- Sesses a raw and astringent, quality, which, often disagrees with weak stomachs, and by being drank too _ warm is as frequently rendered unwholesome, the following is recommended as an improved method of ‘sweeten it to taste.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan