Latte (Cafe Latte)

Latte is the Italian transliteration of "Latte", which means "milk". In the English world, latte generally refers to coffee brewed with hot milk. Latte is a classic blend of Italian espresso and milk because it contains a lot of milk and is very suitable as a breakfast drink.

Italian latte (Cafe Latte):

The practice is extremely simple: pour nearly boiling milk into the freshly made espresso (steam from an espresso machine to steam hot milk). The general ratio is 1/3 espresso Espresso and 2/3 hot milk, which has a higher proportion of milk than cappuccino Cappuccino. In fact, there is no rule on how much milk to add and can be freely mixed according to individual taste. Lattes generally use mugs because they have more milk.

American latte:

If you add some cold milk foam to the hot milk, it becomes an American latte. Starbucks American lattes are made in this way, with espresso at the bottom, milk heated to 65 to 75 ℃ in the middle, and cold milk foam of no more than half a centimeter.

Allusions to Cafe Latte:

The famous phrase "I'm not in the cafe, I'm on my way to the cafe" was said by a musician in Vienna. The air of Vienna is always filled with the smell of music and Latte coffee. The first person to add milk to the coffee was Kochsky of Vienna, who also opened the first coffee shop in Vienna.

In 1683, the Turkish army attacked Vienna for the second time. The then Emperor Augustus I of Vienna had an offensive and defensive alliance with King Augustus II of Poland, and as soon as the Poles heard the news, reinforcements would arrive quickly. But the question is, who will break through the siege of the Turks to deliver letters to the Poles?

Kochsky, a Viennese who had traveled in Turkey, volunteered to deceive the besieged Turkish army in fluent Turkish, crossed the Danube and moved to Poland. Although the Ottoman army was brave and skillful, it retreated hastily under the attack of the Polish and Viennese armies, leaving behind a large number of military supplies outside the city. Among them were 500 bags of coffee beans-coffee beans that the Muslim world had controlled for centuries and refused to flow out so easily reached the Viennese. But the Viennese didn't know what it was, and only Kochsky knew it was a magical drink.

So he asked for the 500 bags of coffee beans as a reward for breaking through the siege and used the trophies to open Vienna's first coffee shop, Blue bottle. At first, the business of the cafe was not good. The reason is that people in the Christian world do not like to drink coffee grounds as Muslims do; in addition, they are not used to this dark and bitter drink. So the clever Kochsky changed the recipe, filtering out the coffee grounds and adding a lot of milk-this is the original version of the latte that is common in cafes today.