What exactly is latte?

When it comes to latte, many people's first reaction is latte coffee, a classic mixture of Italian espresso and milk.

In fact, Latte means "milk" in Italian. If you order a cup of "Latte", the waiter will only give you a cup of milk. Caffè Latte refers to milk coffee.

Speaking of the origin of latte coffee, it is also very interesting.

It is said that the first person to add milk to coffee was the Viennese Kosciuszko.

In 1683, the Turkish army attacked Vienna for the second time. At that time, Emperor Obold I of Vienna had an offensive and defensive alliance with King Augustus II of Poland. As long as the Poles learned of this news, reinforcements would arrive quickly. But the question was, who would break through the Turkish siege and send a message to the Poles? Kochilski, a Viennese who had traveled in Turkey, volunteered to deceive the Turkish army besieging the city with fluent Turkish, crossed the Danube River, and moved the Polish army. Although the Ottoman army was brave and good at fighting, it still retreated in a hurry under the attack of the Polish and Viennese armies. When they left, they left a large number of military supplies outside the city, including dozens of sacks of coffee beans - coffee beans that the Muslim world had controlled for centuries and refused to flow out easily fell into the hands of the Viennese. But the Viennese didn't know what it was. Only Kochilski knew that it was a magical drink. So he asked for these dozens of sacks of coffee beans as a reward for breaking through the siege and asking for help, and used these spoils to open a coffee house in Vienna - the Blue Bottle.

At the beginning, the coffee shop business was not good. The reason was that Europeans did not like to drink coffee grounds like the Turks. So the clever Kochisky changed the recipe, filtered out the coffee grounds and added a lot of milk - this is the original version of the "latte" coffee commonly seen in coffee shops today.

Common types of latte coffee on the market now include Italian latte, au lait and caramel latte.

Nowadays, many cold drink shops have launched their own "latte" series, such as "black tea latte", "matcha latte", etc., which are actually milk tea and do not contain coffee ingredients.

Therefore, the tea latte in the beverage shop is a drink similar to milk tea, not coffee~

Coffee lovers, what other drinks have you mistakenly thought were coffee?

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