I started drinking coffee during tax season. Hot coffee still has not won me over, but "addiction" may perhaps not be too strong a word for what I felt towards these beauties:
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| Get in my belleh |
Ingredients? Coffee, milk, and sugar. Actual sugar, not corn syrup. Something in the neighborhood of $2 a bottle. One or two of those a day? It starts to add up. Not going to happen on a continual basis. So I started looking for iced coffee recipes, presuming I'd have to get a coffee pot, brew hot coffee, wait 'til it cooled, etc.
But no. I found the Pioneer Woman recipe for iced coffee. It turns out that cold brewing means you put coffee grounds in a container, add water, and let it sit for at least 8 hours. I put half a pound of coffee in a plastic 1 gallon pitcher and filled it with water and let it sit overnight and partly into the next day.
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| I used Cafe du Monde coffee for no reason other than some girl from work cold brews too, and she's from Lousiana and orders this coffee by the case, so she gave me a brick of it for free. Thanks, Caroline! |
After letting the coffee sit, you strain out the grounds (I used a coffee filter inside a wire mesh strainer), and you are left with... a sort of iced coffee concentrate. You probably would not want to drink the concentrate on its own unless you are brass of stomach or ball. So I added milk and some simple syrup to mine, and kablam! Sweet creamy victory way more delicious than the starbucks in a jar. The Pioneer Woman says that a batch of iced coffee concentrate made with a pound of coffee and two gallons of water lasts her about a month if kept tightly closed in the fridge. A pound of coffee is about $10-$12 bucks, and that lasts a month? Way more economical, too. 39¢ a day, plus however much a splash of milk costs.
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| Hello, beautiful! |
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