Coffee, made in the pot in which it is served
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 7 ingredients
- a pint of water being
- Bicarbonate of soda
- Coffee
- Milk
- Tea
- Soda
- a pint of water
Contains
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
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- Make a bag of thin muslin, and sew it at the top to a metal ring that will fit the top of the table coffee-pot.
- Fit this to the pot, and pour in boiling water ;
- let it stand till the pot is heated ;
- pour off the water, and put the ground coffee into the bag, allowing four table-spoonfuls to a pint of water.
- Pour in boiling water very slowly until the pot is full, close the lid, and, when all the water has passed through the grounds, remove the bag and serve.
- Coffee with an equal quantity of boiled milk, mixed while boiling, is the French Cafe au Lait.
- Coffee (the flavor of) is said to be greatly improved and its delicate aroma increased by adding a very little bicarbonate of soda to the water with which it is made.
- In England many persons habitually use carbonate of soda in making tea, a pinch to a pint of water being the regulated quantity.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan