How did the coffee houses of 16th and 17th century England make their
coffee? Was what Daniel Defoe and Dr Johnson drank more like Turkish
or Starbuck's?
In a jug:
Take a one pint jug and a kettle of boiling water:

Put a couple of tablespoonfuls of freshly ground coffee into the warmed
jug, and pour in the water. Leave to infuse for 5 minutes, give it a
stir, and strain into a warmed serving pot.

How do you know?

That's how my parents made coffee in the 1950s, but is there a source
describing the same process from 250 years before?

(My parents then went to use a coffee percolator, a technology so crap
you don't even see them in car boot sales any more).

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