The origin of the name latte the main category of latte is latte in China.

Latte, also known as Caff è Latte, is one of many Italian lattes, because latte means fresh milk in Italian, so if you are in Italy, remember not to just tell the coffee shop clerk that you want a cup of Latte, or you will get suspicious eyes and a cup of fresh milk. In the English-speaking world, Latte is the abbreviation of Coffee Latte, which generally refers to coffee made from hot fresh milk. The French word lait is synonymous with the Italian word latte, which means milk. Caff è Latte, the so-called coffee with milk, is usually directly transliterated as "latte" or even "latte" or "Natti". As for the French word Cafe au Lait, which means coffee with milk, it is commonly known as "coffee O'Lei" or "O'Lei coffee".

The origin of the name

Latte is the transliteration of Italian "Latte". Latte (CoffeeLatte) is a kind of fancy coffee. The ultimate blend of coffee and milk, Italian latte coffee is pure milk and coffee, American latte will replace part of the milk with milk foam, most of the local lattes are like this.

The origin of the 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 his coffee was Kochsky of Vienna.

This is the story of 1683. This year, 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 are dozens of sacks of coffee beans-coffee beans that the Muslim world has controlled for centuries that have refused to flow out so easily into the hands of Viennese. But the Viennese don't know what it is. Only Kochsky knows that this is a magical drink. So he asked for dozens of sacks of coffee beans as a reward for breaking through the siege, and used the trophies to open a cafe in Vienna, Blue bottle. At first, the business of the cafe was not good. The reason is that Europeans do not like to drink coffee grounds with coffee grounds as the Turks do. 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.

2 production method

Practice: use utensils and materials.

The right amount of deep-roasted coffee beans (about 7ml coffee powder per cup standard)

Italian special coffee machine

Latte syrup

1. Soak the cup (warm cup) in hot water to raise the temperature and then pour out the excess water for use. A simpler way is to place the coffee cup in the heat storage area of the Italian coffee machine, where the temperature of the cup is enough for extraction and concentration.

two。 Grind the deep-roasted coffee beans, pour the coffee powder into the filler and flatten the coffee with a powder press, then buckle the filler to the espresso machine extraction port to extract ESPRESSO. When extracting, pay attention to keep the extraction mouth close to the wall of the mark cup as far as possible, so that the grease of ESPRESSO can be formed more completely. According to the actual situation of filling pressure, the extraction time is generally 20-25 seconds. The amount of extraction is 30ml.

3. If you are making an original latte, you can add chocolate syrup to the extracted ESPRESSO. According to your personal taste, it is generally 6 to 8 milliliters more moderate. If you make other lattes, such as vanilla lattes, add vanilla syrup and pay attention to it as before.

4. Take the right amount of milk and put it under the steam nozzle of the espresso machine to make a high-temperature mixture of milk and foam. Try to control the temperature, more than 90 degrees may cause the milk to boil, so that all the bubbles will be destroyed.

5. Shake the mixture of milk and foam up and down so that the foam is concentrated on the top as much as possible, so that it is easier to control the proportion. Scrape off the thicker foam with a spoon, and the thicker foam will destroy the taste and affect the shape of the final finished coffee.

6. Shake the right proportion of milk and foam mixture so that the foam and milk are fully integrated.

7. Finally, pour the milk and foam homogenizer into the ESPRESSO, control the flow to pull flowers, so as to complete a cup of Italian latte.

3 main categories

Italian latte

Italian lattes (Caff è Latte) require a small cup of Espresso (Italian coffee word) and a cup of milk (150mm 200ml). Lattes contain more milk and less coffee, which is very different from Cappuccino (cappuccino). The latte is as simple as pouring nearly boiling milk into a freshly made espresso. In fact, there is no fixed rule on how much milk is added, and it can be freely mixed according to individual taste.

If you add some frothy cold milk 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 60 to 65 ℃ in the middle, and cold milk foam of no more than half a centimeter.

If you do not put hot milk, but directly decorate two tablespoons of milk foam on the Italian espresso, it becomes the macchiato coffee called Espresso Macchiato by the Italians.

Ole Coffee

Latte O'Lei can be regarded as an European latte, which is different from American latte and F latte.

Ole Coffee is also very simple: pour a cup of espresso and a large cup of hot milk into a large cup at the same time, and finally put two tablespoons of whipped cream on the surface of the liquid.

The biggest difference between Oulei coffee and American latte and Italian latte is that it requires milk and espresso to be injected into the cup together. Milk and coffee meet at the first time, resulting in a feeling of leisure and freedom.

The French are the most enthusiastic proponents of Ole Coffee. You will see the round Orei Cup on the French breakfast table, which is the source of their good mood for the day.

Interestingly, compared with all the coffee cups, the cup used by the French to hold Ole coffee is probably the largest.

Caramel latte

Caramel color is also known as caramel, commonly known as sauce color, Caramel in English, karamelxucker in German and sucrecaramelise in French. Caramel is a kind of natural colorant which is widely used in food and is an important member of food additives. Caramel is a strong sugar extracted from it. It is usually used as a pudding / latte. The color is almost brown. Food-grade sugars such as glucose, fructose, sucrose, inverted sugar, maltose syrup, corn syrup, molasses and starch hydrolysates were coked by heating (or pressurizing) at high temperature above 121℃ and further treated.

1. Ordinary caramel: made with or without acid or base, but not heated by ammonium or sulfite compounds. The acids used can be food-grade sulfuric acid, sulfite, phosphoric acid, acetic acid and citric acid. The bases used can be sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide.

Cafe Latte

2. Caustic sulfite caramel: prepared with or without acid or base in the presence of sulfite, but not heated by ammonium compounds.

3. Ammonia caramel: prepared with or without acid or base but not heated with sulfite in the presence of ammonium compounds.

4. Ammonium sulfite caramel:

Prepared with or without acid or base heating in the presence of sulfite and ammonium compounds.

Latte is the most familiar Italian coffee item in China. It is fancy coffee with equal proportion or even more milk in the thick and full-bodied ESPRESSO. With the warm seasoning of milk, the originally sweet and bitter coffee becomes smooth, sweet and rich, even those who are not used to drinking coffee can not compete with the fragrant taste of latte. Like cappuccino, lattes are suitable for drinking in the morning because they contain a lot of milk. Italians also like to use it to warm their stomach and go with breakfast. Many people do not understand the relationship between lattes and Olei. In fact, lattes are Italian milk coffee, steaming milk in the way of machine steam, while Oulei is French coffee. They boil the milk over fire, and the taste is warm and smooth.

Practice: use utensils and materials.

The amount of deep-roasted coffee beans is moderate.

Moderate amount of milk (coffee\\ proportion of fresh milk: 1:1)

1. Soak the cup (warm cup) in hot water to raise the temperature, and then pour out the excess water for use.

two。 Grind the deep-roasted coffee beans, pour the coffee powder into the filler, flatten the coffee powder with a press stick, then buckle the filler to the espresso machine extraction port, and extract the ESPRESSO (coffee\\ fresh milk at 1:1).

3. Take the right amount of milk and put it under the steam nozzle of the espresso machine to steam it into hot milk.

4. Pour the steamed milk into the cup.

5. Shake the cup up and down to make the foam rise.

6. Finally, pour the ESPRESSO into the cup slowly.

The characteristic of Latte is that the taste of milk is heavier than that of coffee, so it must be greater than 1 stroke 2 milk.

4 Art of life

A good cup of coffee is not only a pure drink, but also a personal experience. In any case, the latte is worth trying, maybe you will have a different understanding of it, and you can come up with several interpretations of it.

An authentic latte is made with 70% milk, 20% foam and 10% coffee. Although coffee has the least ingredients, it is decided to be called coffee. There is an important implication here: the minority is not necessarily subordinate to the majority, and the minority often becomes the protagonist in a particular environment. Many people like to drink lattes, and their personalities seem to bear some resemblance to lattes. Some people say that the latte character represents a kind of fashion. People with latte character do not pursue other people's appreciation and deliberate like petty bourgeoisie. They are more casual, the kind of urban people who integrate tradition and avant-garde, they have a pioneer side, such as to live the life they like, not to be influenced by others, at the same time, they do not reject tradition. The lives of those with latte character also have its specific material symbols. Perhaps they live in the suburbs or small towns, live in rows of villas, live neither in isolated villas nor in noisy neighborhoods; they do not have a sports car, but they will have a household Gyibug; they like cotton and linen products and choose plaid shirts and T-shirts, which are convenient and fast, and can be worn on formal occasions; they eat side dishes and never drink wine that is difficult for them to understand, but only home-made wine. Their joy is not in tomorrow and others, the day of the week is what day of the week, they are themselves.

Lattes are so simple, they only do what they want to do, they live independently, even if the life is not very rich, but as long as it is their own choice; they enjoy it, although it may only be a cup of tea, but as long as they like it. Lattes are actually using their own way of thinking to inject a ray of warm milk fragrance into this cup of bitter coffee of life. they inadvertently coruscate the originally difficult and boring life with a kind of sweet fragrance and add love to life. who can say that this is not an art of life? If you want to do it, make a latte. If you smell yourself, you will infect others.

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Latte in China

Latte is the most familiar variety of Italian coffee.

It is fancy coffee with equal proportion or even more milk added to the thick and full-bodied ESPRESSO. With the warm seasoning of milk, the originally sweet and bitter coffee becomes smooth, sweet and rich. Even people who are not used to drinking coffee can't compete with the taste of Fangmei latte. Like cappuccino, lattes are suitable for drinking in the morning because they contain a lot of milk. Italians also like to use it to warm their stomachs for breakfast. Many people do not understand the relationship between lattes and Ole. In fact, lattes are Italian-style milk coffee, steaming hot milk in the way of machine steam. On the other hand, O'Lei is French coffee, and they heat the milk over fire, and the taste is warm and smooth.

The difference

The term latte was only used outside Italy in the 1980s. A typical latte consists of 1/3 espresso Espresso and 2/3 fresh milk, usually without foam. Compared with cappuccino, it has more fresh milk flavor and more mellow flavor.