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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a quart of pure milk
  2. three quarts of water
  3. Celery
  4. Corn meal
  5. an ounce of coffee
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Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Celery High in vitamin K · Source of folate · Source of protein

    High in vitamin K · 29 µg per 100 g, 39% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Vitamin K contributes to normal blood clotting.
    • Vitamin K contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Vitamin K is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy. It’s important for blood clotting and healthy bones and also has other functions in the body. NIH fact sheet

    Source of folate · 36 µg per 100 g, 18% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Folate contributes to maternal tissue growth during pregnancy.
    • Folate contributes to normal amino acid synthesis.
    • Folate contributes to normal blood formation.
    5 more authorised claims
    • Folate contributes to normal homocysteine metabolism.
    • Folate contributes to normal psychological function.
    • Folate contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Folate contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Folate has a role in the process of cell division.

    Folate is a B-vitamin that is naturally present in many foods. Your body needs folate to make DNA and other genetic material. NIH fact sheet

    Source of protein · 0.7 g per 100 g, 20% of the energy from protein

    • Protein contributes to a growth in muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of muscle mass.
    • Protein contributes to the maintenance of normal bones.

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Celery, raw”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Warm the freshly-ground coffee mixed with a soupqon of celery over the fire, stirring it till quite hot.
  2. Then pour boiling water on it, and let it stand for ten minutes, and serve with milk and sugar.
  3. Quantities — quarter of coffee and quarter-ounce of chicory for every three quarts of water.
  4. Coffee (To Make).
  5. Buy the best coffee and grind it to the consistency of ordinary corn meal.
  6. Into a French tea-pot put an ounce of coffee for every person.
  7. One pound of coffee will make sixteen cups.
  8. As soon as the water in the tea-kettle begins to boil, moisten the coffee gently, and leave it to soak and swell for three minutes.
  9. Then add a little more water, continue to add water till you have obtained not more than a large coffee-cupful of the extract.
  10. If carefully done the entire virtue of the coffee will be in the cupful of liquor at the end of five minutes.
  11. For four persons use a quart of pure milk and have it boiling hot ;
  12. heat the coffee-cups by pouring hot water into them.
  13. Now divide the coffee into the cups — each one should be a quarter full ;
  14. fill up with boiling milk.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Kettle