Cold/Iced Coffee: curiosities and recipe

Hello everyone, I’m sure you all have drank cold coffee or heard of. Well, it’s a great thing, especially during summer, and many people prefer it to hot coffee.

You can find cold coffee everywhere and in different forms; you can choose which one you want to try and just enjoy it. Shortly, it’s good stuff, if you ask me.

I want to talk about cold coffee, how it’s prepared, where to buy some good ones and other things about it.

So, here we go.

First of all, let me tell you how I got to know cold coffee. As you may know, people just don’t let their children drink coffee until they reach a certain age, maybe adolescence.

Well, my parents are doctors so my mother didn’t let us drink coffee when we were young, of course, because it’s not good for children and it’s not really necessary, you know. So, I didn’t really know how it was and what it was meant for, mainly because there are plenty of other choices of things I could drink and I didn’t really had this curiousity to try coffee.

It was until my teen ages that I drank some coffee but I wasn't a fan of it, so I just drank tea or just water. During my late teens I tryed cold coffee again and I got into it. People usually found it really "fancy" and teens prepared this cold coffee every time, they wanted to treat or surprise friends.

Well, at first I thought that cold coffee was something difficult to prepare and needed a time-consuming preparation it is not like that, at all, . It’s really one of the simplest things to do!

You can prepare cold coffee in many different ways. The simplest one is to put some coffee and sugar in a bottle, add some water to it and just shake it for a couple of minutes. Shake until everything gets mixed well and the water gets brownish. So just shake, shake, shake! The other thing you can do is using a mixer or a hand mixer.

Ingredients:

• 1 tsp coffee
• 1. 5 tsp granulated sugar
• Chocolate ice-cream
• Water
• Ice cubes

Preparation process

So, you take 1 tsp coffee and add 1. 5 tsp granulated sugar and one third of the glass water and mix them together. If you don’t want coffee to be too sweet, you can put less sugar or no sugar at all. Sometimes I use those small soluble coffee packages, which have different flavours and are already sweetened, too. That’s really simple, you just open the package and add some water, that’s it. Then shake the bottle or mix it with a mixer.

When you stop shaking, you need to pour this mixture into a glass and then you add some ice-cream to it. Whatever flavour of ice-cream is okay.

Then you add some ice cubes and water and the cold coffee is ready!

Of course, you can add many other things dipending on you preferences, for example whipped cream, chocolate granules or cinnamon. It's up your creativity, too!

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My experience of cold coffee at the cafeteria

When I tasted cold coffee at the cafeteria, I was really pleased with it, because it was really delicious and the portion was pretty large and really enough for one person, . I had cold cappuccino with whipped cream and ice. They also had vanilla, mocha, caramel, French vanilla, with the addition of cream, almond milk, whole milk, skim milk or sweeteners. Plus, it’s really good with donuts.

The history

Reading about iced coffee, I descovered that it comes from Algeria, where it's called Mazagran. It was a drink French troops drank there because of the heat and because they didn’t have any milk or brandy around 1840. When French troops returned to France, they introduced this beverage to French people and suggested the notion of serving the beverage in tall glasses, which is how French call “mazagrin” nowadays.

There are several ways to serve cold coffees in different countries, even though the idea is the same. For example, Germans have the so-called Eiskaffee: cold coffee with whipped cream in it; while in the United States have several brands that prepare this kind of iced coffee, such as Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts.

There’s also a difference between cold-brewed coffee and iced coffee: the cold-brewed coffee is cold from the beginning, while the iced coffee is initially hot and then cooled.

Obviously, the taste is different too: cold-brewed coffee has a more deep flavor taste than the iced coffee.

Nowadays, you can make your own cold coffee just the way you like it: you can add whatever you like and however you like. It all depends on you. Personally, I would like to try some cold coffee with Oreos cookies, maybe, or biscuits in it.

A lot of variations exist for what concerns cold coffee, something in which you can add tons of differents ingredients: syrup layers, coffee, ice, milk; some people like their ice to be floating, some like it on the bottom, some add chocolate, melted or shredder, even as a decoration on top, together with cream, sugar, cinnamon of fruit pieces.

Especially in Georgia, people tend to put ice-cream in their cold coffee, because many people prefer it to whipped cream.

However! Despite your personal taste, now you know how simple it is to prepare cold/iced coffee and it really doesn’t matter whether you have many ingredients or just the main ones, it’s really easy! And the best part is that you can make it on your own!

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