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Coffee For One

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United States

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

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 1 cup cold water
  2. 2 tablespoons 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. Add 2 tablespoons coffee to 1 cup cold water, cover closely, let stand overnight.
  2. Bring slowly to boiling point and pour carefully through strainer.
  3. Or, use an individual percolator or drip coffee pot, following instructions for Percolated Coffee or Filtered Coffee.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Boston Cooking School Cookbook 1937 (1937), printed page 37, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/boston-cooking-school-cookbook-1937-archive

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.