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To Roast Coffee

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. an ounce of butter
  2. Coffee
  3. Chestnut

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.

Method

  1. 544.
  2. Pick the black or imperfect grains from the coffee.
  3. Put it in a pan, and stir it all the time it is roasting ;
  4. when clone it should be the color of the hull of a ripe chestnut.
  5. It should be brown all through, but not black.
  6. About ten minutes before it is done add to two pounds of coffee half an ounce of butter.
  7. Whilst hot put it in a box and cover it closely.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From The national cook book (1856), printed page 270, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/nationalcookbook00pete

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.