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Filtered Coffee

The coffee should be ground as fine as the mill will make it. Allow one-half cup of the ground coffee to one generous quart of water; this makes sufficient for five cups of coffee . Place the coffee in the cloth or strainer in the top of the pot, arranged for the purpose, pour the boiling water upon it, and set the pot back, allowing the water to filter slowly through. When it is all through, set the pot over the heat, and when the coffee is just at the bubbling point, pour it out, and at once return it to the top of the pot to filter once more. Do this still again, making three times in all that the water has been poured upon the coffee; and serve at once . This produces a clear, bright coffee and requires at the most, not longer than five minutes in the making, if the heat is properly brisk. Coffee should be served as soon as made, or the bright flavor will be lost.