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French Coffee

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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 6 cupfuls boiling water
  2. 1 cupful finely ground 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. 1 cupful finely ground coffee, 6 cupfuls boiling water.
  2. There are a number of pots on the mar‘:et for making French coffee;
  3. any of them are suitable, provided they contain a fine strainer, which holds the coffee and, prevents the grounds from getting into the infusion.
  4. To make coffee in this fashion, put the coffee into |the strainer, which is generally set into the mouth of the pot;
  5. place the pot on the stove and slowly pour the water over the grounds, allowing it to filter through.
  6. If you wish to have the coffee stronger, pour out the infusion and pour it a second time over the grounds, but do not allow it to cool.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve