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- Thai Coffee
-
- Make *very* strong coffee (50-100% more coffee to water than usual), use
- something like Cafe Du Monde which has chicory in it. Pour 6-8 oz into cup
- and add about 1 Tbs sweetened condensed milk. Stir, then pour over ice.
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- You'll have to experiment with the strength and milk so you get lots of
- taste after the ice/water dilutes it.
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-
- My version comes from a newspaper article of many years ago, and simply
- calls for grinding two or three fresh cardamom pods and putting them in
- with the coffee grounds. Make a strong coffee with a fresh dark roast,
- chill it, sweeten and add half-and-half (that's what I saw the chef using
- at the last Thai restaurant I went to) to taste.
-
- This is a derivation-from-memory of a recipe that I first read some two
- years or so ago for Thai iced coffee (that lovely stuff that I can
- drink for hours on end while I'm slurping down panang and pad thai):
-
- Makes 1 8-cup pot of coffee
-
- 6 tablespoons whole rich coffee beans, ground fine
- 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander powder
- 4 or 5 whole green cardamom pods, ground
-
- Place the coffee and spices in the filter cone of your coffee maker.
- Brew coffee as usual; let it cool.
-
- In a tall glass, dissolve 1 or 2 teaspoons of sugar in an ounce of the
- coffee (it's easier to dissolve than if you put it right over ice).
- Add 5-6 ice cubes and pour coffee to within about 1" of the top of the
- glass.
-
- Rest a spoon on top of the coffee and slowly pour whipping cream into
- the spoon. This will make the cream float on top of the coffee rather
- than dispersing into it right away.
-
- To be totally cool, serve with Flexi-Straws and paper umbrellas...
-
- One other fun note: I got a fresh vanilla bean recently and put it to
- good use by sealing it in an airtight container with my sugar. The
- sugar gets the faintest vanilla aroma and is incredible in Real
- Chocolate Milk (TM) and iced coffee.
-
- One final note: this would probably be even better with iced espresso,
- because the espresso is so much more powerful and loses its taste less
- when it's cold.
-
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- Strong, black ground coffee
- Sugar
- Evaporated (not condensed) milk
- Cardamom pods
-
- Prepare a pot of coffee at a good European strength (Miriam Nadel
- suggests 2 tablespoons per cup, which I'd say is about right). In
- the ground coffee, add 2 or 3 freshly ground cardamom pods. (I've
- used green ones, I imagine the brown ones would give a slightly
- different flavor.) Sweeten while hot, then cool quickly.
-
- Serve over ice, with unsweetened evaporated milk (or heavy cream
- if you're feeling extra indulgent). To get the layered effect,
- place a spoon atop the coffee and pour the milk carefully into
- the spoon so that it floats on the top of the coffee.
-
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- Vietnamese Iced Coffee
-
- Same coffee
- Sweetened condensed (not evaporated) milk
- Ice
-
- Make even stronger coffee, preferably in a Vietnamese coffee maker.
- (This is a metal cylinder with tiny holes in the bottom and a
- perforated disc that fits into it; you put coffee in the bottom of
- the cylinder, place the disc atop it, then fill with boiling water
- and a very rich infusion of coffee drips slowly from the bottom.)
-
- If you are using a Vietnamese coffee maker, put two tablespoons of
- sweetened condensed milk in the bottom of a cup and put the coffee
- maker on top of the cup. If you are making espresso or cafe filtre
- (the infusion method where you press the plunger down through the
- grounds after several minutes of infusion), mix the sweetened condensed
- milk and the coffee any way you like.
-
- When the milk is dissolved in the coffee (yes, dissolved *is* the
- right word here!), pour the combination over ice and sip.
-
-
- Melya
-
- Espresso
- Honey
- Unsweetened cocoa
-
- Brew espresso; for this purpose, a Bialetti-style stovetop will
- work. In a coffee mug, place 1 teaspoon of unsweetened powdered
- cocoa; then cover a teaspoon with honey and drizzle it into the
- cup. Stir while the coffee brews; this is the fun part. The
- cocoa seems to coat the honey without mixing, so you get a dusty,
- sticky mass that looks as though it will never mix. Then all at
- once, presto! It looks like dark chocolate sauce. Pour hot
- espresso over the honey, stirring to dissolve. Serve with cream
- (optional). I have never served this cold but I imagine it would
- be interesting; I use it as a great hot drink for cold days, though,
- so all my memories are of grey skies, heavy sweaters, damp feet
- and big smiles.
-
-
- THAI ICED COFFEE
-
- The recipe I have calls for:
-
- 1/4 cup strong French roasted coffee
- 1/2 cup boiling water
- 2 tsp sweetened condensed milk
-
- Mix the above and pour over ice.
-
- I'd probably use less water and more coffee and milk. (But then I
- prefer Vietnamese coffee.)
-
- >I'm looking for directions to make this drink. It contains some sort
- >of coconut milk or something with strong coffee and whole ice cubes.
- >If anyone knows how this is made I'd appreciate a reply.
-
- The french coffee served at the Vietnamese restaurants here in Austin
- make it with condensed milk, very strong coffee, and the ice. It is
- brought to the table in small glasses with the condensed milk in the
- bottom and a small drip coffee maker atop that. Once the coffee has
- completely dripped down you stir it up and pour it in a glass of ice.
- The one place where I have had Thai coffee brought it to the table
- already mixed but it had the same flavor.
-
-
- You have to get the Thai ground coffee from the Thai market to
- make the iced coffee. From there, just treat it like any regular
- coffee to make it, but add LOTS of sugar to sweeten it and then
- refrigerate to cool it. There is also a stronger version of Thai
- coffee called "Oleng" which is very strong to me and to a lot of
- coffee lovers.
-
-
- I've seen at Vietnamese restaurants, and now use at home, Cafe Du Monde
- coffee from the New Orleans coffeehouse of the same name. It's available at
- Asian stores for a good price. Make doublestrength coffee with this and
- pour into a glass with a couple tablespoons sweetened condensed milk (also
- from Asian stores), stir to dissolve. Add ice. (if you add the ice before
- the coffee, it will be harder to dissolve the thick, syrupy milk).
-
- You can also get little gizmos from Asian stores which are like mini
- Bistro-style coffee makers (eg: Bodum): a cup-like thing with perforated
- bottom and a plunger-like top which screws onto it. Fill with coffee, add
- plunger (but don't screw down tight), then fill with hot water. Let drip
- until done into cup with sweetened condensed milk. Stir and pour into glass
- with crushed ice.
-
- I forgot to mention, Cafe Du Monde is pretty much a French roast, and has
- some chicory in it. Makes the taste of Vietnamese Cafe Sua Da more
- interesting than using more mundane coffees.
-
- The Thai Cafe Yen (spelling?) which I've had uses heavy cream instead of the
- sweetened condensed milk.
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