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After-dinner coffee

Marion Harland’s original method for After-dinner coffee, retained as a source transcription for modern discovery.

PartySnackVegetarianStovetopPublic domainHistoric recipeSource transcription
Est. prep10 min
Est. cook10 min
Est. serves6
Total20 min
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  • Make as directed in last recipe, allowing, however, three cupfuls of boiling water to one of freshly ground coffee, and run three times through the filter.
  • Never pass cream with black coffee in after-dinner cups—“demi-tasses,” as the French, who taught us to drink it, call the dainty digestive agent.
  • To ask for cream in such a case is a gastronomic and social solecism.

Historical transcription

Source method

  1. 1

    Make as directed in last recipe, allowing, however, three cupfuls of boiling water to one of freshly ground coffee, and run three times through the filter.

  2. 2

    Never pass cream with black coffee in after-dinner cups—“demi-tasses,” as the French, who taught us to drink it, call the dainty digestive agent.

  3. 3

    To ask for cream in such a case is a gastronomic and social solecism.

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