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Craig Robbins wrote:
I heard this was a Scandinavian way to make coffee -- I don't know.
If you go 80-100 years back, it was common to use a 'clearing skin', giving off glue-like stuff that made the powder from the grinding stick together to form lumps that fell to the bottom, removing the 'fog' in the liquid coffee.

I thought that the clearing skin was fish skin (you can make glue from fish skin!). A couple of sources confirmed that, while others insisted that you use pieces of the swimming bladder from fish. One source claimed that clearing skin was made from the outermost 'skin' of boiled eggs, immediately inside the shell. Usually, when you shell a boiled egg, this skin follows the shell, not the white.

I wouldn't rule out that some may have used the whole egg, or more likely: The white. But in the old days, eggs were somewhat expensive foodstuff, while fish was cheap (/free from the sea if you lived by the coast). So I guess using eggs just to get your coffee clearer was limited to the upper classes. Middle and lower classes probably used fish products.

I have never seen anyone using a clearing skin (or egg) when brewing coffee in my lifetime.

(This is in Norway.)
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