There are a multitude of coffee variants with milk on the menu when you are at your local coffee shop and have to make an (important) decision. Café au lait is one in the crowd.
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What is Café au lait?
Café au lait is French and means “coffee with milk”. A café au lait is made from one part coffee and one part hot milk. Some baristas add more milk than others. A café au lait is not frothy in consistency like a cappuccino, but is brewed to be an easy cup of coffee that can be enjoyed quickly.
In France, a café au lait is often served in a large, deep cup, and there’s a special reason for that. It allows you to dip a buttery, crumbly croissant into your coffee.
In Denmark, the translation is often: a filter coffee with a little cold milk. I slang: En færgelatte.
Hardly as exotic as the story of a buttered and crumbed croissant.
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