TABLESPOON CAFE RECIPES

Steps:

• With a traditional Cuban coffee maker, add water to bottom half. Add coffee to filter and tap gently with the back of a spoon. Replace filled filter in coffee maker and screw top on tightly. Over low to medium heat, brew the coffee on the stovetop. It should take approximately 3-5 minutes. Be sure not to overcook the coffee.
• Put the 4 tablespoons of sugar in the bottom of a creamer. Once the first 1-2 oz of coffee has brewed, remove coffee maker from heat and pour coffee into the creamer. Replace to stove so that the remainder of coffee can brew. Meanwhile, mix sugar and coffee together until a paste forms.
• Once coffee has finished brewing completely, pour all coffee into the creamer and stir until a slight froth appears. Pour in individual coffee mugs.
• Add warm, evaporated milk to each mug until there is a 50-50 ratio of coffee to milk.
• Enjoy!

Steps:

• Place milk in a small pan over the stove. Heat just until about to boil, when tiny bubbles are gathering around the edges of the milk. Remove from heat.
• Divide the hot, fresh-brewed coffee between two small coffee or espresso cups. Swirl milk in the pan to even out the heat and bubbles, then pour the milk evenly over the coffee in the two cups.
• Serve immediately with sugar and small spoon on the side.
• Cuban version: Add sugar to the milk as the milk is steaming over the stove and stir to combine. One method is to pour the sweetened milk over the hot coffee in the cups, another is to add the coffee back into the sweetened milk on the stove and continue to steam and blend the mixture another minute or two before pouring into the cups.