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French Café au Lait

From America's Cook Book. 1942 (1942).

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A historical recipe

America's Cook Book. 1942, by The New York Herald Tribune (1942).

France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. 1 tablespoon butter
  2. 1 tablespoon whipped cream

Method

  1. Make strong or double strength coffee by any method desired.
  2. Have ready an equal quantity of freshly scalded milk.
  3. Simultaneously pour coffee and milk in equal amounts into heated cups.
  4. Ifa richer drink is desired, add 1 tablespoon butter to each cup of milk, or top each cup with 1 tablespoon whipped cream.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Whisk
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Credit

From America's Cook Book. 1942 (1942), printed page 147, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/aamericas-cook-book

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.