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1. Roast and grind the coffee as above or get it ready roasted and ground from the Army and Navy Stores or Civil Service Supply Association.

2. Make a kitchen jug or billy-can hot, put into it one good ordinary tablespoonful of the coffee for each person and a pinch of salt for the whole jug.

3. Pour on this 1/2 pint of absolutely boiling (freshly boiled) water, allowing 1/2 pint for each tablespoonful of coffee.

4. Give it a stir round with a tablespoon.

5. Pour out a cupful and pour it back; do this 3 times.

6. Then put in a tablespoonful of cold water.

7. Have ready another hot jug or billy-can and stand it in a pan of boiling water; cover the top of this jug with a clean piece of butter muslin, folded to make 4 thicknesses.

8. Pour your coffee through this muslin into the jug. The muslin will catch up every grain, and the coffee will be deliciously clear and hot if the directions have been carefully followed.

This makes the best coffee in the world, and one of its merits is that no special apparatus of any kind is required except a supply of butter muslin, which may be washed in clean water and will serve again if neither soda nor soap be used in the process. It is therefore ‘top-hole’ for campers, hikers and backwooders.