The Dutch cup of vintage filtre coffee tastes and smells of how your Granny used to make coffee. Ours always used van Nelle's coffee, Makes sense if you were born in Rotterdam because Van Nelle's coffee was originally founded there in 1782. You can still visit the beautiful Van Nelle building.
These days in Holland there is still Douwe Egberts filtre coffee available, also an old familiar brandname because it was founded in 1925. But how was that filtered coffee made by our Gran again?
Here is how Grandma made coffee
She started by grinding the beans in a hand operated coffee grinder and sometimes we were aloud too do it! Later on she bought ground coffee, how modern (!), that is also what we used today.
You need water; a coffee pot with a filter; paper (Melitta) filter bags and ground coffee.
Put the filter bag in the filter, the filter on the pot and measure 1 scoop of coffee per person + 1 extra, for the pot.
In the old days many people put a scoop of Buisman, a strong coffee extract, in the coffee.
Not our Grandma, she felt it made the coffee taste artificial :)) Bring the kettle to a boil and allow it to cook well.
First you only wet the coffee, by pouring on a little bit of boiling water.
Then fill the filter with boiling water up to just beneath the rim of the filter.
Allow the coffee run through steadily and place the coffee pot on a rechaud.
Two points of attention
- Remove the milk from the heat when it comes to a boil, do not wait until it actually boils!
- Very important! Do not forget to present a biscuit with a Dutch cup of cofee, rather give two, otherwise it comes across as stingy.
Bring some milk to a boil and fill a cup with 1/3 coffee, 1/3 milk.
Yet the old filter coffee tastes pretty good, very nostalgic too ;)
Snazzie bought the vintage coffee stuff during a power failure, then they came in very handy!