Coffee Milk

Have you ever heard of Coffee Milk?  I hadn’t either until 1996, I was visiting family in Rhode Island before heading to England and in the fridge was this plastic bottle with a bright yellow label.

Coffee Syrup?  What do you need coffee syrup for?

Coffee milk of course!  I was sure that coffee milk must be the same as iced coffee  just in Rhode Island colloquium like cabinets (shakes) and grinders (sub/hoagie sandwiches).  I was quickly corrected, it’s not the same as Iced coffee.

A tall glass was made up for me.  It started with ice cubes (hello iced coffee), then it was filled with milk and then the coffee syrup was squeezed.  Stir, stir, slurp, slurp, smack, sip, gulp, I declared it wonderful.  I also decided that it was still iced coffee but much more convenient. No wonder it’s the official drink of Rhode Island!

What it is most similar to is chocolate or strawberry milk, a sweetened flavored syrup added to milk and mixed for an instant flavored milk.  I had to have some of my very own!  Unfortunately it’s a very local thing (still is, unless you order from Amazon), I had to devise a way to make my own!

After many years of trail and error and McGyver will tell you that I’ve burnt more than one pot trying to make a coffee syrup and forgotten it on the stove (ugh, burnt sugar).  I’m sharing with you this wonderful delight, sans the burnt pots (the trick was to reduce the coffee first then add the sugar…)

Tip: I save my leftover coffee in the refrigerator until I have a least two cups of coffee. You could of course brew fresh and use that also.

Coffee Milk

2016-06-11 13:11:58

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Ingredients

1. 2 cups brewed coffee
2. 1 cup sugar
3. Milk

Instructions

1. Pour coffee into a medium sized sauce pan, heat over medium low heat until coffee is reduced by half. Remove from heat and immediately add 1 cup sugar, stir constantly until sugar is dissolved. Store in refrigerator until ready to use.
2. To make coffee milk: Fill a tall glass with ice (if desired), add milk and 1 to 2 tablespoons coffee syrup (more or less to taste), stir well to blend.

Notes

1. If you have an old squeeze bottle, they make it very convenient to dispense the coffee syrup.

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