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French Coffee

A historical recipe from Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886).

A historical recipe

Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886). Project Gutenberg eBook #44915.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Also printed in: Practical vegetarian cookery, by Kate Buffington Davis, Constance Wachtmeister (1897).

Source and licence

From Margaret Brown's French Cookery Book, by Margaret Brown (1886). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #44915 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44915). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Three pints of water to 1 cup of ground coffee.
  2. Put the coffee grounds in a bowl, pour over it about 1/2 pint of cold water, and let stand for 15 minutes;
  3. bring remaining 2-1/2 pints water to a boil.
  4. Take coffee in bowl, strain through a fine sieve, then take a French coffee pot, put coffee grounds in strainer at top of French pot, leaving the water in the bowl.
  5. Then take the boiling water and pour over the coffee very slowly;
  6. then set the coffee pot on the stove for five minutes;
  7. must not boil.
  8. Take off and pour in the cold water from the bowl that coffee was first soaked in to settle.
  9. Serve in another pot.
  10. The French have the reputation of making the best coffee.
  11. Use 3 parts Java and 1 part Mocha.