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United States

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. three pints of water
  2. Cream
  3. a cup with boiled milk
  4. seven spoonfuls of 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.

  • 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. water, allowing three pints of water to seven spoonfuls of coffee.
  2. Let it boil gently ten or fifteen minutes ;
  3. then set it where it will keep hot, (but not simmer,) that it may settle.
  4. M.
  5. Soyer’s mode of making coffee, is an original one, and one worthy of note.
  6. He puts the dry coffee in the pot, stirs it while heating, then pours the boiling water over it, which is a quart to one ounce of coffee , and sets the pot where it will keep hot, but not boil.
  7. It stands ten minutes, when it is ready for drinking.
  8. Where cream cannot be had, boiled milk serves well as a substitute, in making a good cup of coffee.
  9. Cafe au Iciit is made by nearly filling a cup with boiled milk, sweetening to the taste, and flavoring with coffee.
  10. The following receipt by M.
  11. Roques, makes a delightful beverage for breakfast, during the heat of the summer :

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon