Coffee - American Recipe

Coffee

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

Traditional preparation of coffee from the 1920s home kitchen.

Ingredients

Method

1. Use — 2 tablespoons of finely ground coffee to each cup of water.
2. If — an ordinary coffee-pot is used instead of a percolator, mix a little beaten egg with the ground coffee before it is put into the pot.
3. It — will also help to clear the coffee if a tablespoon or so of cold water is dashed into the boiled coffee just before the pot is taken from the stove.
4. The — coffee should boil three minutes if cold water is used at the start, or five minutes if hot water is used.
5. The — coffee-pot or percolator should be aired well after washing.
6. At — least once a week fresh water containing a little soda (1 teaspoon to a quart of water) should be boiled for several minutes in the pot or percolator; the latter should then be washed out in fresh hot water, and set in the sun to air.

Tags: coffee · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)