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Coffee/Tea Coffee for 25 men.

10th. coffee for 25 men.
(from Hand-book for active service; containing practical instructions in campaign duties, by Egbert L. Viele, 1861, Chapter VIII.)

Ingredients:

12 + 1 quarts water​
20 oz. coffee​
sugar, 4 tsp. to the quart​
if milk is available, leave out 5 quarts of water, and replace with milk​

Instructions:

Take 12 quarts of water, when it boils add 20 ounces of coffee, mix it well and leave it on the fire till it commences to boil; then take it off, and pour into it a little more than a quart of cold water; let it stand in a warm place full ten minutes ; the dregs will settle at the bottom and the coffee be perfectly clear. Pour it then into another vessel, leaving the dregs in the first ; add sugar, 4 teaspoonsful to the quart. If you can get milk, leave out five quarts of water in the above receipt, and put milk in its place.​
 
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