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Coffee for One Hundred Men, One Pint Each

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Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 3 lbs. ground coffee
  2. 12 gallons water
  3. a gallon cold water
  4. 6 lbs. sugar
  5. Milk
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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. Put 12 gallons water into a suitable vessel (or divide if necessary), on the fire;
  2. when boiling, add 3 lbs.
  3. ground coffee, mix well with a spoon;
  4. leave on the fire a few minutes longer;
  5. take it off, and pour in ½ a gallon cold water;
  6. let it stand till the dregs subside, say from 5 to 10 minutes;
  7. then pour off and add 6 lbs.
  8. sugar.
  9. If milk is used, put in 12 pints, and diminish the water by that amount.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan