Quito Travel Forum

While I was in Quito I developed a taste for
the instant coffee mixture that seemed to
be everywhere for breakfast.
It was added to a cup of steaming milk
and seemed to be instant coffee mixed in
with maybe cinnamon and other spices.

Does anyone have a recipe?????

I think it's highly concentrated real coffee made the day before. Blech.

It looks like Capuccino... I will translate a recipe that I found here:
400 gr instant integral milk powder
230 gr fine granulated suggar
50 gr instant coffee
5 soup spoons of fine chocolate powder
1 soup spoon sodium bicarbonate
1 tea spoon cinammon powder
Now put together Instant Integral Milk Powder and Instant Coffee in a blender (to mingle these components) and make instant coffee grains refined. The resulted product you put on a big bowl to blend to all others ingredients. Let this mixture be homogeneous.
Now, for every 3 soup spoons of this final product (people here call it capuccino)you will dissolve in 180ml of boiling water. Take care on this operation because bulk will increase around twice...
Here in Brazil people use this drinkable hot Capuccino to restore our vigours.
Nowadays I don't drink Capuccino. It's too acid (coffee) and MD told me to avoid it.
Cassiovieggore

Double blech!

That recipe contains instant/powdered milk -
the powder we were given
(almost always in a jar/bowl at the breakfast table)
was to be ADDED to a cup of hot steaming milk -

I believe the instant coffee mix -
contained instant coffee and
just a few spices - perhaps a little
cinnamon/nutmeg/cardamom -

I thought someone might know a recipe
for certain (or maybe be there and ask) -

I've found a few recipes for "spiced" coffee
on the internet and will try them.
................