1 full coffee-cup (½ pint) of ground coffee.
1 quart of boiling water.
White of an egg, and crushed shell of same.
½ cup of cold water to settle it.
Stir up the eggshell and the white (beaten) with the coffee, and a very
little cold water, and mix gradually with the boiling water in the
coffee-boiler. Stir from the sides and top as it boils up. Boil pretty
fast twelve minutes; pour in the cold water and take from the fire,
setting gently upon the hearth to settle. In five minutes, pour it
off carefully into your silver, china, or Britannia coffee-pot, which
should be previously well scalded.
Send to table _hot_.