Café frappé

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Café frappé

Café frappé ( Greek καφές φραπέ kafes frape ) usually short, frappe called, is a cold drink made by shaking or mixing foamed spray dried instant coffee with ice cubes . He is - as iced coffee  - drinking mostly in the summer and is in the Mediterranean region in south-eastern Europe and in Southeast Asia spread.

Difference to iced coffee

Café frappé differs from iced coffee in that the coffee in the café frappé is cooled by ice cubes and in the iced coffee by scoops of vanilla milk ice cream . However, there are also mixed forms in which balls of milk ice are added to the café frappé with crushed water ice. This iced coffee variant is called Café frappé pagoto , or Frappé Pagoto for short .

preparation

Preparation in a cocktail shaker

Instant coffee is shaken together with some cold water and possibly some sugar in a cocktail shaker until frothy. The frothed coffee is poured into a tall glass, ice cubes are added and cold water is added. Fresh cream or condensed milk can be added as desired.

Preparation with the frappe foamer

Depending on your taste, you fill a tall glass with sugar and one to two teaspoons of instantly soluble ("instant") coffee powder . Pour one or two finger-widths of water over this and beat the mixture with a Frappemixer / milk frother until foamy and stiff. Then you fill the glass optionally with crushed ice or ice cubes, cold water, milk, condensed milk or cream.

Variations

Similar to mocha , it is usually served either γλυκός ( glykos, "sweet"), μέτριος ( metrios, "medium [-sweet]") or σκέτος ( sketos, "just", without sugar). It is drunk with or without milk.

In the Frappé me Gala (frappé with milk), a variation of the Café Frappé , condensed milk is added after the coffee has been frothed. Colloquially, this variation is also called " Φραπόγαλο (Frapogalo)".

In the summer months, the frappé is often served as iced coffee (Frappé Pagotó) with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You can combine the frappé with a shot of Kahlúa or Baileys . Due to the Greek enthusiasm for cold coffee, the traditional Greek mocha coffee has been served cold for some time after the frappé and its Italian espresso or cappuccino freddo variants.

Frappe foamer

In Greece, electric cable or battery-operated frappe foamers are mostly used to foam the powder-water mixture. These can be obtained from the Internet. Frappe foamers have a corrugated hexagonal whipping disc . Milk frothers have a toroidal spiral. However, the powder-water mixture can also be foamed into stiff coffee foam with conventional milk frothers.

Physics of frappe foam

Spray-dried coffee contains almost no fat or oil (= liquid fat), but only solid particles of coffee powder that contain smells and flavors as well as caffeine . Compared to hot air or freeze -dried coffee, spray-dried coffee forms a colloidal foam made up of tiny bubbles. In the physical sense, it is a stable three-phase colloid made up of solid coffee particles, liquid water and gaseous air. This enables a particularly thick layer of foam to form on the coffee. The absence of oil prevents the bubbles from collapsing quickly , which is why the foam of the frappé lasts much longer than the crema of the espresso.

prehistory

Lait frappé = milkshake

Milkshakes consist of milk, flavorings / fruit puree and ice cubes, which are mixed together by shaking (shake). Such shakes appeared at the end of the 19th century. The first known mention of the word "milk shake" was in an English-language newspaper in 1885. In the French-speaking parts of Canada ( Québec ) and Switzerland ( Romandie ), as well as in the Boston area , these milkshakes were not called "milk shake" but rather "lait frappé", which is the literal translation for shaken milk from English into French. In Switzerland, milkshakes of all flavors are still called “frappés” today.

Café frappé - American style

If you replace the milk with cream and the flavor carrier with coffee in the milkshake, you get café frappé, which literally means shaken coffee. A description of a recipe for café frappé can be found in the popular housekeeping book Everyday Housekeeping: A Magazine for Practical Housekeepers and Mothers by Anna Barrows et al. from the year 1897. There it says literally: “You brew 1 quart (= 1.1 liters) of very strong black coffee, mix this with 1 quart of cream, and sweeten to taste. Freeze this as shown. "

Café frappé Instant - American style

Soluble coffee was first used on a large scale from 1910 by George Constant Louis Washington (1871–1946) under the brand name “G. Washington's Coffee ”, which also supplied the American troops with it during the First World War . This led to the rapid spread of soluble coffee in the United States. Frappé-specific instant coffee, intended only to be dissolved in milk, did not come onto the market until after the Second World War .

In the USA, only the “café frappé” refers to coffee of Greek origin, the word “frappé” or “frapp” for short usually only refers to a milkshake.

The invention of the café frappé

The invention of the actual café frappé dates back to 1957. At the Thessaloniki International Fair , Nestlé's local sales company presented the chocolate drink Nesquik , which was prepared using a shaker. After the sales representative Dimitrios Vakondios could not find hot water to prepare his coffee at the fair, he decided to prepare a Nescafé cold with a shaker. The drink became popular among the employees of the local sales company and was advertised as a summer product.

The Nescafé Frappé product was created without any initiative or consultation with the Nestle headquarters in Vevey, but was soon recognized by them and marketed outside of Greece. In Greece, Nestlé advertises by stating the year of its invention 1957.

Due to the now high proportion of oils, a frappé can no longer be achieved in many markets with standard Nescafé or instant coffee in general, which is why instant coffee specially tailored to the café frappé can be bought.

etymology

The term comes from the French verb " frapper " meaning "beaten" and is its participe passé form. Café frappé means nothing more than "shaken coffee". In early Greek Nestlé advertisements, the Necafé Frappé was recommended to be served with a scoop of ice cream, which can be interpreted as an indication that the name was intended to be associated with French lait frappé , the French name for milkshake. The word frappé was taken up as a loan word in the form φραπέ (frapé) in the Greek language.

See also

Web links

Wiktionary: Frappé  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marianthi Milona (author); Werner Stapelfeldt (Ed.): Greece. Greek specialties. Könemann Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-8290-7422-0 , p. 231.
  2. ↑ YouTube video about preparing a Greek café frappé with the frappe frother
  3. ↑ The preparation of the Greek Cafe Frappe. cafe-frappe.info, accessed December 29, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Brands: Dynamix, iQ-smart, Avec, Alta
  5. ↑ a b 26 Delicious Facts about Milkshakes. avivadirectory.com, accessed December 31, 2014 .
  6. ↑ lait frappé. Le grand dictionnaire terminologique - Office québécois de la langue française, accessed on December 31, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Ice Cream: Frappes. Boston Magazine, July 2013, accessed January 2, 2015 .
  8. ^ The book "Everyday Housekeeping: A Magazine for Practical Housekeepers and Mothers" by Anna Barrows is available as a reprint.
  9. ↑ see “Café frappé” in Google Book Search search option 19th century
  10. ↑ George Washington (inventor) in the English language Wikipedia
  11. ↑ Brands: Nescafé frappé type iced coffee, Krüger iced coffee
  12. ↑ tchibo.de
  13. ↑ In the Kafenio - Café Frappé. Retrieved July 19, 2016 .
  14. ↑ German-French online dictionary Leo German " shaking " = French "frapper qc." [Cocktail]
  15. ↑ Duden | Frappé, Frappee | Spelling, meaning, definition, origin. Retrieved May 2, 2018 .
  16. ↑ "frapper". L'Internaute - Dictionnaire de la langue française, accessed December 31, 2014 (French).