{"id":2272,"date":"2024-11-04T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/2015\/11\/24\/recipe-swedish-egg-coffee-2\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T11:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:37:05","slug":"recipe-swedish-egg-coffee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/recipe-swedish-egg-coffee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Make Swedish Egg Coffee from Scratch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish egg coffee is a unique Scandinavian-American tradition from the days before Keurig coffee makers. It\u2019s a concoction beloved by many ladies in church basements throughout the Midwest: a mixture of coffee grounds and a beaten egg\u2014shell and all. It\u2019s said that the egg and shell clarify the coffee and make it less bitter.<\/p>\n<p>The website <a title=\"Talk About Coffee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.talkaboutcoffee.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Talk About Coffee<\/a> explains that the proteins in the egg bind with the acid in the coffee to neutralize it. It doesn\u2019t change the flavor of the coffee, but it makes it super smooth and wonderful.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Dregni, author of <em>Vikings in the Attic: In Search of Nordic America<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), and an assistant professor of English at Concordia University in St. Paul, Minn., wrote the following in a blog post for the <a title=\"University of Minnesota Press Blog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uminn pressblog.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">University of Minnesota Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Every morning, my grandmother made her Swedish egg coffee: a quarter cup of Folgers\u2014 that\u2019s what Mrs. Olson recommended\u2014mixed with an egg white and the shell thrown in for a little calcium. The egg clings to the grounds, so when her concoction was poured through a simple strainer, the result was a perfectly clear cup of coffee. Swedes like her further diluted it with thick cream, whereas Norwegians always wanted it black.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to Dregni, Scandinavians drink the most coffee of anyone in the world\u2014at least 18 pounds per person per year.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 623px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"This coffee-making method is a Swedish tradition.\" src=\"https:\/\/img.hobbyfarms.com\/image_transfer\/hobby-farm-recipes\/egg-coffee2_800.jpg\" alt=\"This coffee-making method is a Swedish tradition.\" width=\"623\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicole Sipe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Ingredients<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>1 egg with the shell (Give the eggshell a good washing before using it.)<\/li>\n<li>1 cup of ground coffee (medium to large grind, so as not to pass through mesh)<\/li>\n<li>8 cups water, divided<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Preparation<\/h2>\n<p>In a medium bowl, crack the egg and crush the shell; add coffee grounds and 1\/3 cup water. Mix into a paste.<\/p>\n<p>In a large pot, bring 8 cups of water to a boil. Carefully add the paste to boiling water. (It\u2019ll foam a little bit, which is normal.) When the boil returns, turn off the heat and remove it from the stove.<\/p>\n<p>As the hot water cooks the egg, the coffee grounds will clump and float. Let it sit for six to seven minutes\u2014longer for stronger coffee. Pour through a fine mesh strainer into a large coffee pot. Discard the solids, and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>This article about Swedish egg coffee was written for Chickens magazine. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hobbyfarms.com\/subscribe-new\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to subscribe.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your Best Cup of Joe Might be Made with Gleanings from the Chicken Coop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":124400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[4086],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recipes","tag-swedish-egg-coffee-recipe"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.0 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How to Make Swedish Egg Coffee from Scratch - Hobby Farms<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Swedish egg coffee is a tradition from the days before Keurig coffee makers. 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