Coffee - American Recipe
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Coffee
Traditional preparation of coffee from the 1920s home kitchen.
Ingredients
Method
- Use — 2 tablespoons of finely ground coffee to each cup of water.
- 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.
- 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.
- The — coffee should boil three minutes if cold water is used at the start, or five minutes if hot water is used.
- The — coffee-pot or percolator should be aired well after washing.
- 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.