Breve

Milk coffee is a category of coffee-based drinks made with milk. Johan Nieuhof, the Dutch ambassador to China, is credited as the first person to drink coffee with milk when he experimented with it around 1660. A breve is an espresso made with a steamed mixture of half milk and half cream . Its size can vary. The name relates to the use of cream and milk. A café au lait is the French way of preparing 'coffee with milk' both at home and in Cafés in Europe. Café au lait stems from the same continental tradition as caffè latte in Italy, café con leche in Spain, kawa biała ('white coffee') in Poland, tejeskávé in Hungary, Milchkaffee in Germany, Wiener Melange in Austria, koffie verkeerd in the Netherlands, lait russe in Belgium, and café com leite in Portugal and Brazil, meaning simply 'coffee with milk'.

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