Drinks in Italy or how to make cappuccino

Perhaps one of the most common coffee drinks around the world today is the cappuccino, which came to us from Italy in the middle of the 20th century. There it is served in porcelain cups, which preserve longer heat. Very often it is prepared with the help of a coffee machine, but if it is not available, you can prepare this drink without its help. And even if the first time you will not succeed, after a little training you can get a very decent cappuccino.

So how to prepare cappuccino at home? This article will tell you about this.

First you need to cook ordinary coffee. To do this, a cup of coffee is poured into the Turks for two servings per serving, water is added and put on fire. When the foam starts to rise, the dishes are removed from the fire and left for a while for the foam to settle. Then the drink is again put on the stove and the same procedure is repeated. And so four times. The main thing here is that coffee does not boil.

Before you prepare a cappuccino, you need to prepare a foam. To do this, take cream (milk) from the calculation of a cup of cream for a cup of coffee, they are put on the fire and, as they warm up, beaten with a mixer or whisk until the bubbles begin to form, when they disappear, the cream is ready.

Coffee is poured into cups, milk is added and topped with a spoon of cream, on which pour cinnamon or sugar. You should know that if the cinnamon does not fail through the foam, then Nescafé cappuccino turned out to be excellent.

It must be said that Cappuccino is an espresso with milk foam, which keeps the temperature of the drink for a long time. Usually in the coffee machine there is a steam outlet tube, which is sent to a cup of cream, and then turn on the "steam" mode, and after a few minutes the cappuccino will be ready.

Let's consider in detail how to prepare cappuccino with the help of a coffee maker.

Ingredients: twenty grams of coffee, a liter of filtered water, one packet of milk or cream, one small spoonful of cinnamon, sugar or grated chocolate.

For cooking, pour one-third of 6% of cold milk (you can 10% of cream), preheat it and beat it with a steam outlet tube with a special nozzle, but it can not be brought to a boil.

Then you need to make an express from ten grams of coffee. After that, milk is poured into it with foam, as they have a uniform consistency, or you can first pour the milk into three fourth cups, and then with a spoon put a foam on top of it. Drink can be sprinkled with chocolate shavings or sugar. Use the drink most often with cookies. To him always served a teaspoon, with the help of which first they eat foam, and then they drink coffee.

There are two types of cappuccino - black and white. Black cappuccino differs in that first the cup is filled with an expresso, and only then put the milk foam. If white cappuccino is prepared, then first put the foam, and then pour the coffee.

It is necessary to distinguish such a thing as "cappuccino art", which is based on the technique of adding milk foam to the expresso when preparing a drink. This technique is based on three figures - a flower, a heart and an apple, all other drawings are just derived from them.

So, before you make a cappuccino, you need to buy coffee, milk or cream and cinnamon. It is not difficult to cook it, but in the end you can get a wonderful drink with an amazing taste and aroma that can lift your spirits and cheer for the whole day. Moreover, it improves blood circulation and helps to get rid of morning headaches. However, caution should be taken with cappuccino to people who are sensitive to caffeine because it increases blood pressure and causes insomnia.

Knowing how to prepare cappuccino and its benefits for human health, you can easily begin to learn how to cook it and after a while you will get a real Italian coffee drink.