Perfect Coffee
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United States
Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 3 ingredients
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.
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- A perfect infusion is made from coffee browned to a golden yellow and finely ground (not pulverized).
- Allow three rounding tablespoonfuls to each pint of water.
- For large quantities, eight ounces to one gallon of water.
- Scald the pot, put the coffee in the upper part or percolator, pour over water that has just reached boiling point ;
- draw the water from the under part of the pot, and pour it again over the coffee.
- Do this three times.
- Light the alcohol lamp underneath, and as soon as the coffee reaches the boiling point, use at once.
- If coffee is percolated in the kitchen, the pot should be placed in a pan of hot water, the grounds removed, or the bag taken from the top before it is sent to the dining-room.
- Where large quantities of coffee are to be made and kept heated for a space of one or two hours, the bag must be removed after the last percolation, and the coffee kept at boiling point.
- Coffee cannot be chilled and then re-heated.
- The flavor and the consistency of the coffee are spoiled.
- Coffee can be kept hot for hours, provided the grounds are removed.
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