What are the characteristics of Naples coffee? How to make coffee cream? Is the birthplace of espresso machines in Italy?

Espresso is a high concentration coffee extracted by a coffee machine under high pressure in a short period of time. It is not only the base for making all kinds of fancy coffee, but also an independent coffee product. Qianjie often says that because of its high concentration, the concentrated partner for the first time is likely to be dominated by its highly concentrated flavor.

Even in Italy, the land of espresso, not everyone can accept the taste in the first place. As a result, people dilute the bitterness of coffee by adding a variety of ingredients, such as Campbell blue with cream, Roman concentrate with lemon and macchiato with a little milk. At this point, we have to mention the Italian coffee city of Naples, where people add a special coffee cream to reduce the concentrated flavor impact. This unique espresso is made in Naples, so people call it "Coffee napoletano".

Before sharing it, Qianjie has a brief introduction to Naples. Because the city of Naples has a deeper relationship with coffee than people think.

Naples, also known as Napoli, are literally translated into the English word for "Naples" and the Italian word for "Napoli". The city is located in the south of Italy and is the largest city in the south. You may immediately think of pizza when you mention Naples, because it is the birthplace of pizza. But as Qianjie said earlier, Naples has the honorary title of Coffee City. One reason why Naples is called the city of coffee is that Naples is the birthplace of Italian coffee machines, and the second is that the city's coffee culture is so profound that the surrounding cities are more or less affected by it.

After World War II, Italy was restricted by coffee imports, and many places had no choice but to use shoddy Robusta to make coffee. The deeply baked Robusta has a very strong bitter taste, which is hard to swallow. So forced to do so, businesses in various cities can only add a variety of ingredients to the coffee to dilute the bitterness, including Naples. The special coffee cream mentioned at the beginning of the front street is another Naples material used to dilute the bitterness in addition to lemons. In addition, merchants would add a little Arabica to balance the taste of Robusta, even though Arabica was expensive at the time.

Today in the 21st century, although the import of coffee beans is no longer restricted, many parts of Naples still retain this practice! Use Robusta and Arabica beans and smear coffee cream to dilute the bitter taste. OK, then let's first get to know how special this special coffee cream is.

Special "cream"? What's so special about this cream? What's special is that it doesn't add any dairy products! It is called "cream" only because its shape has a creamy sticky texture. And it is made of only espresso and sugar, so it is: coffee cream. Seeing here, do you remember that a similar coffee dessert is also made in this way?

That's right! It is the "400 times of coffee" that Qianjie shared in the last two months. It's just that 400 coffees use instant coffee powder, water and granulated sugar, while this coffee cream is mainly espresso and white granulated sugar, and more sugar is added. It is said that in Naples, different stores will use different recipes to make "cream" in order to draw a gap with other stores. Then let's share how to make orthodox Naples coffee in front of the street.

Naples coffee, first of all, we need to get the coffee cream out first, and the ingredients we need to prepare are: espresso (espresso made by mocha pot) and white granulated sugar. And the utensils that need to be prepared are a container and an electric foamer, and you can do it manually, as long as you can hold it by hand, and whether it's espresso or mocha pot coffee, we can extract it according to the normal extraction method. because the production of coffee cream adds a large amount of sugar, there is no need to deliberately increase the concentration of coffee like 400 times of coffee to make the foam more stable. Therefore, Qianjie here will use the parameters adjusted this morning to extract espresso, using 20.1 g powder for 29 seconds to extract the 38ml liquid weight.

Then, we add 2 times the weight of the coffee liquid sugar to dispense! (after testing, this is already very sweet.)

Just like using steam to beat the foam, at first we don't bury the foaming machine in the coffee liquid, but keep half of the head on the outside and the other half in the coffee liquid. Then start up and inject air into it.

When you feel the same, then bury the whole mixer in the liquid to make love!

After that, we use the same parameters to extract an espresso and pour it into a concentrated cup.

Then gently rub the finished coffee cream on the espresso, and a cup of Naples coffee is done!

Before drinking, we gently stir the coffee liquid, oil and coffee cream. (you can also put a little coffee cream on the cup with a spoon) and then you can start to drink!

When we put this cup concentrate to our mouth, the sweet smell of espresso combined with coffee cream has been caught by our sense of smell, because after stirring, the aroma is very prominent. Then we took a sip, and the first thing we felt was the silky touch of coffee cream. Because of the use of warm sun blend, so in the taste, strong whisky aroma combined with sugar sweetness, evolved a sweet wine flavor, followed by berries, butter cookies! At the same time, the addition of sugar balances the original high concentration of "bitterness", which is very comfortable! Finally, we gargle with a shallow sip of ice water, and then snuff it out, feeling the wonderful performance of this Naples coffee in the mouth, which is really very good!

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