How to Make Coffee

Method

1. The best method of making coffee, as determined by the Better Coffee-Making Committee of the National Association of Coffee Roasters, is as follows: "Fill a kettle with fresh cold water and put it on to boil.
2. Place over an open china teapot, kept just for coffee, a clean, wet, old linen napkin, or a new square of unbleached muslin, letting it sag toward the center.
3. Put into the depression 4 heaping tablespoons (for 4 cups of coffee) of finely pulverized coffee.
4. This fine pulverization is very important.
5. Ordinary ground coffee will not do at all, and gives weak infusions.
6. "When the water in the kettle is boiling fiercely, pour it through the coffee slowly until 4 cups have gone through, or a trifle more for 4 cups of coffee.
7. "Cover and take at once to table.
8. "Wash the cloth immediately and keep it in a jar of cold water, never permitting it to get dry, and freshening the water every day.
9. Keeping the cloth sweet is essential.
10. Every effort should be made to this end.
11. The least souring ruins the coffee.
12. "Follow these directions strictly, paying especial attention to having the coffee very fine, like flour, and the water boiling, and you will have excellent coffee even though you buy cheap blends."

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