How to make Coffee in a Jug or Billy-Can

Name: How to make Coffee in a Jug or Billy-Can
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Pour on this ½ pint of absolutely boiling (freshly boiled) water, allowing ½ pint for each tablespoonful of coffee.; Then put in a tablespoonful of cold water.; Make a kitchen jug or billy-can hot, put into it one good ordinary tablespoonful of the coffee for each person and a pinch of salt for the whole jug.; Pour on this ½ pint of absolutely boiling (freshly boiled) water, allowing ½ pint for each tablespoonful of coffee.; Roast and grind the coffee as above or get it ready roasted and ground from the Army and Navy Stores or Civil Service Supply Association.; Make a kitchen jug or billy-can hot, put into it one good ordinary tablespoonful of the coffee for each person and a pinch of salt for the whole jug.; Have ready another hot jug or billy-can and stand it in a pan of boiling water; cover the top of this jug with a clean piece of butter muslin, folded to make 4 thicknesses.; Have ready another hot jug or billy-can and stand it in a pan of boiling water; cover the top of this jug with a clean piece of butter muslin, folded to make 4 thicknesses.; Pour your coffee through this muslin into the jug. The muslin will catch up every grain, and the coffee will be deliciously clear and hot if the directions have been carefully followed.

Florence White, 1926

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

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Method

Roast and grind the coffee as above or get it ready roasted and ground from the Army and Navy Stores or Civil Service Supply Association.
Make a kitchen jug or billy-can hot, put into it one good ordinary tablespoonful