Iced coffee: history and methods of preparation

Iced coffee is very popular on hot days.Not everyone knows the history of the appearance of the original cocktail, what types of refreshing coffee exist. Many housewives are interested in recipes for making cold coffee drinks.

The word coffee is associated with the definition of hot, but in the 17th century, the Dutch made cold coffee. Soaked ground grain in cool water. It turned out a kind of tincture. The manufacturing recipe quickly became known in many countries of the world. The Japanese started calling the chilled coffee drink Dutch.

In the XIX century, during the military intervention in Algeria, French soldiers were surrounded by Algerians in the fortress Mazagran, they had nothing to do, like pouring cold water into natural coffee. Later, the drink of the same name with the name of the fortress appeared, in which sugar syrup was already added.

Quite by chance in 1957 a new type of coffee was invented, which is called a frappe. Dimitrios Vakondias, who represented his company's products at the international exhibition in Thessaloniki, during the break, wanted to brew his own instant coffee. However, the boiling water could not be obtained. The Greek had a shaker with him, which company representatives used at the fair to showcase instant cocoa for children. A savvy Greek began to intensively beat them instant coffee, ice with sugar. The result was a steady fluffy foam. Since then, this coffee cocktail is in great demand in Cyprus and Greece. It is appreciated by coffee gourmets of the whole world.

Cold drinks latte, mocha, ice coffee are made in a different way: freshly brewed and cooled coffee is mixed with cool milk.

There is an interesting legend about the appearance of the most popular milkshake glase. One day, a young man was in a hurry about his business and, going into a cafe, asked the bartender to make a cappuccino. There was no milk at that moment. Then the resourceful bartender replaced it with ice cream. The young man madly liked the drink. Since then, he began to constantly order it.

The bartender began to include in the menu a drink of a new recipe. This story happened in one Austrian town. However, traditionally glase is considered a cold French cocktail. The technology of its preparation is simple. In a cezve or coffee machine, natural coffee is brewed, cooled. Ice cream is placed on the bottom of the glass with a handle, coffee is poured over it, decorated with whipped cream. Served with a straw.

In the heat, cold coffee cocktails are perceived as refreshing: the ice cream and ice added to them blows cool.

Coffee frappe is made in Greek quite simply: liquor (20 ml) and cool milk (150 ml) with coffee (25 g) are vigorously whipped, crushed ice is added (4 cubes). You can use any sweetener. Per person, only half a spoonful of sugar is consumed.

In the shaker you need to pour instant coffee with sugar, pour cool milk, whisk intensively. Pieces of ice are put in the glass. A carefully prepared drink is poured into it. Decorate the cocktail with whipped cream with a can. Spends no more than five minutes to prepare a Greek coffee drink.

This drink is made from natural grains with the addition of ice. Spicy herbs, various syrups and various powders are added to the ice drink along with the ice cream.

Unlike similar types of refreshing drinks prepared by infusion. Ground coffee is mixed with cold water, incubated for at least 12 hours. No effort is needed to make this type of drink. You do not need to know the strict proportions: how much to take ground coffee, how much water.

It is prepared in the same way as cold bruis, but with a nitrogen gas content. In appearance can be taken for strong beer. It has a wonderful taste, which feels a delicate creamy flavor.

In hot season refreshing coffee with the addition of oranges is in great demand. You need to take water (500 ml), pour sugar into it (300 g), add two slices of orange zest, boil for five minutes. Then the slices of the peel are removed, the liquid must be cooled. Freshly squeezed orange juice and cold instant coffee are added. It remains only to pour in glasses with ice, add cream. You can decorate the mixture with orange slices.

There is another very simple way to make a refreshing orange-flavored coffee drink. In the heat it is indispensable.

In a blender mix freshly brewed coffee (50 ml), orange juice (50 ml). If desired, add sugar. The drink is ready to eat. It remains only to decorate it with whipped cream.

The same cocktail is prepared in a different way. First, whip cream with sugar, add orange juice. The resulting mass is poured into a glass. Very carefully a thin stream of freshly brewed coffee is added along the blade of the knife, which should fall to the bottom.

Coffee with ice cream and frappe benefits the body with its nutritional qualities. Due to its high caffeine content, the drink has an invigorating effect that gives energy to the body. Cocktail creates a cooling effect, but not always quenches thirst.

When the drink is prepared without additional components, it contributes to the rapid removal of fluid from the body, activates mental activity, makes the muscles strong.

Due to the low temperature of the drink, tooth enamel with small cracks suffers; healthy teeth are not harmed by ice floes floating in cold coffee.

Some ingredients, such as milk, ice cream, sugar, make chilled coffee drink high-calorie. People who follow a diet prefer to use water instead of milk, low-calorie substitutes instead of sugar.

Available ingredients make it possible to prepare a wonderful drink at home. Instant coffee is more suitable for making frappe; for other types of coffee drinks, ground beans are brewed in Turk.

Espresso make in the coffee machine. Then filter and cool the liquid. Instant coffee will help in the home to make a beautiful lush foam.

A well-known recipe for making a cooled drink with raw yolk. It is necessary to shake up one yolk with syrup and milk (one tablespoon of each ingredient), then pour into the foamed mixture the pre-brewed and cooled coffee (150 ml). Must be refrigerated for a few minutes.

Coffee with honey at home is prepared very simply. It is necessary to boil water (240 ml) with coffee (40 g), two teaspoons of sugar, add a little lemon essence. After cooling the syrup, you need to put 2 tablespoons of honey, ice, a piece of lemon, add two tablespoons of mineral water and wine.

Thais first boil over medium heat a lot consisting of cream (500 ml) with cardamom (2 tsp) and sugar (3 tbsp. L.). The liquid is covered with a lid for 15 minutes, after which crushed almonds are poured into it. In 4 glasses put ice, pour this mixture. Cocktail Thai ready.

Natural coffee (30 g), water (200 ml), cream (75 ml) are brewed in the usual way. The finished liquid is filtered, cooled. Then two balls of ice cream and melted chocolate are added to it. It turns out the English version of a cold cocktail.

Preparing a Viennese coffee drink is a snap. Frozen mixed with cream (130 ml) brewed coffee (500 ml) is frozen. Then you need to whip the cream and decorate with crumbled waffles.

For the preparation of mint-chocolate coffee you need to put bitter dark chocolate (50 g) in brewed hot coffee (350 ml). After cooling the drink, you must add creamy ice cream (50 g), four tablespoons of liquor or mint syrup, pieces of ice. Beat the mixture intensively. Add another ice cream (50 g), decorate with a leaf of mint, chocolate crumbs.

For homemade cold cappuccino, you will need to add one tablespoon of chocolate syrup and a spoonful of instant coffee to a glass of milk. Next, you need to beat up until a persistent foam is formed, pour in sugar, pour it into glasses, sprinkle with cinnamon on top.

One of the most original recipes involves the preparation of a coffee drink from peaches. First you need to crumble a pound of fresh juicy peaches. Put them in boiled cooled mixed cow and coconut milk, which is taken in the same proportions: half a liter each. In the resulting mass, you need to add a vanilla stick. The mixture should be whipped, poured into glasses and add ice.

There are two ways to make cold coffee:

• brews hot coffee and cools;
• cool water is initially taken, in which ground grains are drawn, followed by filtration.

Sugar slowly dissolves in the cooled liquid, therefore, it is better to use sugar substitutes, sugar solutions, syrups for making a cooled cocktail.

You can make coffee ice: brewed and cooled strong coffee is poured into special forms for freezing ice cubes, left in the freezer. As soon as it freezes, get it out of the fridge.

Frozen coffee cubes can be poured with cool milk (250 ml). To make cubes, you need 5 teaspoons of instant coffee and pour the same amount of sugar with hot water (250 ml). It is possible to add a little vanilla to get a special flavor and taste. Then leave until solidified in the freezer.

To make a coffee smoothie, you need to make a banana puree, add yoghurt (250 ml), beat a lot. Pour the pre-cooked and cooled coffee (250 ml), whisk again.

There is an original way to get infused coffee. To do this, take a plastic bottle, cut off the bottom of it, screw the lid very tightly, turn the bottle upside down. Pour cold water into it. Natural coffee (170 g) poured into two coffee filters, tied with threads, put them in a bottle of water. A bottle to find support, which can serve as an ordinary bank. Put the day in a dark cool place.

The hostess should know that to drink a cold coffee cocktail preferably between breakfast and lunch. Experts advise to drink this drink only once a day, sometimes it is permissible to drink and twice. Immediately after a meal, it is not recommended to use it: due to the low temperature of the drink, digestion is slowed down.

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