Coffee recipes from France

Café au lait

Recipes for 4 people:
6 heaped measuring spoons of coarsely ground coffee (possibly mocha), approx. 40 g.
1 teaspoon of coffee spices
0.5 l fresh whole milk
Sugar white
Preparation time:
about 15 minutes
Energy value: 80 kcal per cup

And this is how it is done:
First, bring 0.5 l of fresh cold water to the boil. Meanwhile, you fill the coffee powder into a rod filter jug ​​(press jug).
Boiling water should never be used to prepare coffee, so wait 30 seconds after boiling before pouring the hot water over the powder in sips. Then stir.

Now the lid is put on the rod filter jug, the coffee should steep for 4-5 minutes.

While the coffee is brewing, the milk is heated to 60 ° C. The milk must not boil. If a skin forms on the milk, it is skimmed off.

Now carefully press the sieve of the rod filter jug ​​down. Please press slowly, otherwise too much coffee powder will penetrate the sieve.

Finally, the coffee and the hot milk are slowly poured into a glass at the same time and in equal parts. Voilà!

Café d’Amour

Recipe for 2 people:
1 teaspoon cocoa powder
approx. 200 ml hot espresso
4 cl Cointreau
some ground cinnamon
sugar
2 cinnamon sticks
Preparation time: approx. 5 minutes

And this is how it is done:
Dissolve ground cinnamon and a teaspoon of cocoa powder in the hot espresso, then pour the coffee into two cups. Carefully add 2 cl Cointreau and add sugar if necessary.

The coffee is stirred with the cinnamon sticks and remains in the cup.