Cappuccino originally referred to the Italian monks, brown espresso covered with a layer of frothy milk, like a brown monk wearing a turban, such as this, rich in association with the Italians will be this specialty coffee called Cappuccino.
Although coffee is different from person to person, it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad, but many people still think that Italian coffee is one of the best, and Espresso and Cappuccino are the best of the best. Espresso has the most artistic temperament, while Cappuccino is in the artistic temperament with a philosophical meaning. So, many people like to use the good or bad cappuccino to assess a coffee shop's level of preparation, although one-sided, but most of the coffee "addicts" to a new coffee house is the first to order a cup of cappuccino, so as to decide whether to come back.
If a cup of green tea is a sage who has a clear mind and is indifferent; a cup of cappuccino is a fashionable crowd in the modern city with mixed flavors - a beautiful appearance and a strong smell, but the taste is very complex: fragrant, sour, bitter and spicy; smooth, stimulating, ambiguous, seductive and pretentious; disappointing, exciting and difficult to say, making people feel the same. Excitement; make people hard to say, let people lingering aftertaste. Living in the complexity of the city, you can use a cup of cappuccino to soothe the nerves of tension, you can let a cup of cappuccino to your tired lethargy some excitement; you can experience a kind of escaping from the creamy foam in the cover of cappuccino, you can fantasize about the temptation of the city under its beautiful appearance, you can drift up in the smell of cappuccino and the coffee house lights, high and low staggered in the touch of a touch of ambiguity! Perhaps the most difficult to give up is the complex feeling of coffee, cream, lemon and cinnamon, which is a kind of urban language, is a city people pour out of a cup full of complex and difficult to describe the mood. CAPPUCCINO practice: taste: the best combination of strong milk flavor and coffee
suitable for: people who like to coffee and milk all in one
Information: espresso, fresh milk.
1. Make a cup of espresso in a moka pot or espresso machine;
2. Heat fresh milk in a microwave oven and pour it into a milk frother to make milk froth;
3. Scrape off the top layer of milk froth in the milk frother, and hold the froth in place with a spoon. Pour the milk into the cup to a height of 2/3, and then use a spoon to scoop the milk froth onto the coffee;
4. If you are a bit more sophisticated, you can also pull flowers on the milk froth. Alternatively: Cappuccino:
1. Brew a dark-roasted espresso in an espresso machine and drop it into a pre-warmed cup. When brewing an espresso, it is important not to overdraw, as the machine must be able to shut off very quickly. The espresso is ready when the dripping coffee begins to take on a golden brown color. The layer of liquid that floats on top of the coffee is called "coffee creamer". This layer of coffee cream will disperse after a few minutes and it can be used to test the quality of the espresso. If the coffee cream is too thick or too light, too thick or too thin, the espresso is not of good quality.
2. Keep the cup of coffee warm in the coffee maker. The cappuccino cup should be warm, otherwise the milk foam will disperse.
3. Pour the milk - preferably skimmed - into a container, use a frother to froth the milk, then pour the frothed milk into the espresso cup and top with lemon wedges or orange slices.
Note: When tasting cappuccino, you should not use a regular spoon or stirring stick, but a cinnamon stick to allow the cinnamon flavor to penetrate the coffee. Of course, it is also possible to sprinkle cinnamon directly into the cup, but that would be like using flavored "juice". The characteristic of cappuccino is that it has a different flavor from the beginning to the end of each sip. Other Fancy Coffee: Latte coffee is a classic blend of Italian espresso and milk, and Italians also like to have a latte as a breakfast drink. In the Italian kitchen in the morning, coffee and milk are usually both brewed on the sunny stove. Italians who drink lattes prefer milk to espresso, and only coffee can give ordinary milk an unforgettable flavor. The Italian style latte requires a small cup of espresso and a cup of milk, and the latte has more milk and less coffee. A latte is as simple as pouring near-boiling milk into a freshly made espresso. In fact, there is no rule on how much milk to add, you can mix it according to your personal taste. If you add some frothed cold milk on top of the hot milk, you will have a cup of Americano latte. Starbucks American latte is made in this way: the bottom is Italian espresso, the middle is heated to 65 ~ 75 ℃ milk, and finally a layer of not more than half a centimeter of cold milk foam. Iced latte coffee using fructose mixed with milk to increase the specific gravity of milk, so that it and the lighter specific gravity of the coffee will not be mixed, become black and white two layers, forming a cocktail like a delicate visual effect, plus ice, giving people a kind of elegant and romantic warm feeling. Forever classic latte coffee: similar to cappuccino, diffuse with the aroma of coffee, followed by a strong milk flavor a Use a mocha pot to make coffee, American coffee machine can also be, but to cook a little thicker. Cooked and set aside. b Put the milk in the wave oven to heat, and then poured into the milk frother into the milk froth, scrape off the top layer of coarse milk froth, poured into the glass goblet, the portion of about 2/3. c Slowly injected into the goblet of coffee, this time the coffee will be floating in the milk, the formation of the top and bottom of the black and white colors. d The top layer of the milk froth, sprinkled with chocolate powder, a cup of hot latte coffee is completed. Latte coffee brewing steps:
Step 1: Pour espresso to 1/4 cup of the amount, in 3/4 cup of hot milk frothed milk.
Step 2: Pour the milk froth from the top of the steel cup until the cup is full. Lattes are usually served in mugs because of the high milk content. Fashion forward iced mocha coffee: sweet and lubricating a Make the coffee in a mocha pot, an Americano machine will work, but make it stronger. b Put ice in a glass, add fresh milk until it is six full, and add a little bit of fructose and stir evenly. c Take another glass, pour in the coffee and then add a little bit of chocolate sauce and stir it in well. d Pour the coffee into the glass and add whipped cream to the top. e Sprinkle with chocolate chip cookie crumbs, and then insert chocolate chips and chocolate cookies diagonally around the rim of the glass to serve. Iced red wine cappuccino: wine and cinnamon, full of American flavors. a Brew coffee in a siphon pot or an Americano pot and put it in the refrigerator. b Pour the iced coffee into a glass and add a little red wine. c Slowly pour whipped cream from the rim of the glass so that it floats on the surface of the coffee, and then sprinkle with cinnamon. d Sprinkle coffee with whipped cream. e Sprinkle with chocolate chips and chocolate chip cookies.