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Filtered or Drip Coffee

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United States

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a cupful of boiling water
  2. a tablespoonful of finely ground coffee
  3. Tea
  4. Must

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. For each person allow a tablespoonful of finely ground coffee, and to .
  2. every tablespoonful allow a cupful of boiling water.
  3. Have a small iron ring made to fit the top of the coffee-pot inside, and to this ring sew a small muslin bag (the muslin for the purpose must not be too thin).
  4. Fit the i>ag in the pot, pour some boiling water in it, and, when the pot is well warmed, put the ground coffee in the bag ;
  5. pour over as much boiling water as is re^ quired, close the lid quickly, and, when all the water has filtered through, remove the bag, and, send the coffee to table.
  6. Making it in this manner prevents the necessity of pouring the coffee from one vessel to another, whioh cools and spoils it.
  7. The water should be poured on the coffee gradually so that the infusion may be stronger ;
  8. and the bag must be well made that none of the grounds may escape through the seams and so make the coffee thick and mudd)-.
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Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan