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Turkish Coffee

A historical recipe from The healthy life beverage book, by Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine) (1911).

A historical recipe

The healthy life beverage book: A compilation, alphabetically arranged, of refreshing, curative, stimulating, and nutritive liquids, comprising fresh fruit and vegetable juices, vegetable broths, cereal drinks, unfired fruit soups, nut milks, plant teas, herbal decoctions, fruit syrups, gum water, &c., with critical notes on water, milk, casein, whey, beef tea, yeast extracts, vinegar, sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, &c., also information respecting the nutritive and medicinal properties of all the products referred to, by Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine) (1911). Project Gutenberg eBook #78781.

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

Source and licence

From The healthy life beverage book, by Knaggs, H. Valentine (Henry Valentine) (1911). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #78781 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78781). 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.

Turkey. Associated with Turkey by a demonym leading its title: Turkish (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. To make this, put into a little metal pot, two large tablespoonfuls of very finely ground coffee and ½ pint of boiling water;
  2. sweeten if necessary with a tablespoonful of honey.
  3. Bring to the boil three times, then pour into small hot cups without straining.