LouisaDec 24

Coffee recipe from 1852

Don't waste fresh coffee on children, good advice

Show threadJesse
@Louisa
I encountered this in a book about coffee yesterday. Times have changed 😂
Dec 24 at 8:34amWeb
Show threadsgt1372Dec 24

@jesse @Louisa

Using egg whites & egg shells to clarify broth well known cooking technique.

No reason why it shouldn't work for coffee too but -- using fish & eel skins??

I wonder who came up with that idea for clarifying coffee? 🤔

I tried googling it but couldn't find an explanation but the cook in me wants to give some fish a try (don't know where to get eel skins) the next time I need/want to clarify some broth but, unlike egg whites, the fish no doubt will "flavor" the broth.

Show threadJesseDec 24

@sgt1372 @Louisa
Eels were abundant (there was a cool historic-eel-facts account but I can't seem to find it anymore?), and the skins are waste, so I get why they'd have some skins to try this with.

But yeah, the flavors...

I'm happy we have paper filters for this now 😃 It's not mentioned in my book (yet) when filters became common, but the eel skins were used around the same time the paper bag (for packaging) was invented, so I assume paper coffee filters only happened later.