Cappuccino in India
It’s tough to trace back the origins of cappuccino in India. Café Coffee Day established in 1996 had cappuccino in its menu from then on. Coffee shop like Shamiana or Sea Lounge is far older than any CCD in India visited by kings and Britishers. There is a remote possibility that they served cappuccino in India far back before the café culture caught up. In 2007 keeping with the boom of the café culture in India HUL launched Bru Cappuccino. Nescafe too has a product in the same genre
Cappuccino in a pouch
Though this is not an India specific phenomenon It gained some buzz in India at the initial stages after which i suppose it fell flat
If you have used a cappuccino sachet to make one – you would have noticed a flavored coffee – vanilla, caramel etc. along with a great foam head which is absent in the normal coffee.
Technically the foam on a cappuccino is supposed to be steamed milk froth. Because that can’t be packed in a sachet – they add baking soda which creates froth – much similar to the volcano lava project you did during your science project in school.
If you have used a cappuccino sachet to make one – you would have noticed a flavored coffee – vanilla, caramel etc. along with a great foam head which is absent in the normal coffee.
Technically the foam on a cappuccino is supposed to be steamed milk froth. Because that can’t be packed in a sachet – they add baking soda which creates froth – much similar to the volcano lava project you did during your science project in school.
How do they make cappuccino in India?
There is one more out of the box way of making cappuccino – an ingenious Indian way. All we want is foam on top of the coffee. Foam is formed when air gets trapped between milk molecules to create small bubble. In a filter kaapi scenario the pouring over coffee from heights tumbler to tumbler aerates the drink. The other way is – coffee powder and sugar are added a small amount of milk and are whisked. This whisking forces air into the thick syrupy coffee+sugar mixture. When milk is added this creates a foam head which is an Indian version of cappuccino.
Part 3 - Cappuccino - What is and Why