☕ Coffee
With milk or cream.
Coffee is a drink brewed from the roasted, ground beans of the coffee plant. Coffee is often drunk with milk or cream. Milk softens the bitterness and sourness of coffee and makes the taste milder. According to records, the first person known to drink coffee with milk was Johan Nieuhof, a Dutch envoy to China. This was around 1660.
Different countries have their own drinks. In France people drink café au lait, in Spain café con leche, in Germany “milk coffee” (Milchkaffee), and in Austria the Viennese melange. In Italy they make cappuccino and latte. In New Zealand in the late 1980s the flat white became popular: an espresso with a thin layer of velvety milk.
For these drinks, milk is often heated with steam and frothed. This makes foam. The difference between the drinks is mainly how much milk and foam there is in the cup. People like to drink coffee with milk at breakfast. Many people use oat milk or another plant-based milk instead of cow's milk.
How it connects to milk
Links
- What is used
- 🥛 Milk, 🥛 Cream
- Used in
- ☕ Latte, ☕ Cappuccino
- Served in
- ☕ Mug
- Associated with
- 🥛 Milk
- Part of
- ☕ Milk in the kitchen: dishes and drinks
Frequently asked questions
Why do people add milk to coffee?
Milk softens the bitterness and sourness, makes the taste milder and the drink more filling.
What is the difference between coffee drinks with milk?
Mainly the amount of milk and foam. A cappuccino has a lot of foam, a latte has more milk, and a flat white has a thin layer of milk.
Similar
☕ Cocoa · 🍵 Tea with milk · 🥤 Milkshake · 🥣 Breakfast cereal · 🥞 Blini · 🥐 Pastry
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