How to Make a Cafe Au Lait

Would you like to learn how to make a cafe au lait? Have you wasted so much money at the local coffee shop lately? Learn how to make your very own cafe au lait at home. You can enjoy the classic drink fresh at home and at the same time save your wallet in the long run.

Cafe Au Lait is a French variation of coffee and milk beverages. It requires a dark roast of coffee brewed in a drip maker, press pot or percolator, and joined with milk which has been heated in a pot, but never steam infused.http://www.cafedumonde.com/coffee.html This page will teach you how to make your own authentic cafe au lait right at home.

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This is a short, but content-rich how-to video by Ryan Morris of Flying Saucers Caffeine and Art coffeehouse in Santa Monica [[California]. He shares his knowledge and experience in making cafe au lait and provides several specific tips.

Step 1: Brew The Coffee

Select your coffee for its roast. An Italian dark roast will suffice. However, in order to stay with tradition, a French roast may be more suitable. Once ground, vital oils in coffee begin to dry. Keeping coffee in whole beans until it's time to use them may increase the flavor of your coffee. Store beans in a cool, air tight place to protect the oils from evaporating or freezing.http://www.coffeeam.com/stgrandbrco.html

Step 2: Scald the Milk

The type of milk which is used will determine how fast it will scald. Take care not to boil milk, bringing it only to a point where tiny bubble begin to form. The higher the fat content of the milk, the more likely it is to boil, while skim milk takes much longer to bubble as do many nut and rice milks with a high water content. Scald the milk in a saucepan in preparation for the final step of the Cafe Au Lait. If you find it difficult to determine when the milk is ready, use a kitchen thermometer to reach 150 to 160F.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr7xA80xpYY

Step 3: Combination

Making this drink with the coffee on bottom or top is a personal preference. Some believe that coffee will be hotter than milk. Therefore some choose to place the coffee in the bottom, adding it to the mug first. However the authentic way to combine these two classics into a Cafe Au Lait is to pour both the coffee and the milk at the same time, and at the same proportion. Attempt this combination from 2 feet above the cup, the traditional way, to add a bit of entertainment to your Cafe Au Lait making process.http://www.gumbopages.com/food/beverages/cafe-au-lait.html

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Learn how to make good coffee with barista Ryan Morris of Flying Saucers Caffeine and Art. Morris recommends using beans rather than already ground coffee. Fresh ground beans are ground to make a single cup so the coffee is fresh each time. The ground coffee is made with boiling water. If the coffee moves through the filter fast the grounds are to course, or if it moves very slow, it is to ground to finely.