From The Princess and the Frog · 2009 · Pairing
Café au Lait
Serve when
Pour it alongside the beignets, Duke's Café style — the New Orleans breakfast the movie's mornings run on.
What to drink
Beignets don't travel alone in New Orleans: their standing partner is café au lait — dark, chicory-edged coffee cut half-and-half with hot milk. Tiana pours coffee through every diner shift in the film, so this is the honest cup for her table: strong, milky, and built to cut powdered sugar.
What to drink
Bitter chicory coffee against fried dough and sugar is one of the great breakfast equations — the reason the café tables of New Orleans have looked the same for a century.
Ingredients
Method
- Brew the coffee strong — chicory blend if you can find it.
- Heat the milk to steaming and froth it lightly.
- Pour coffee and milk into the cup together, half and half — that's the au lait.
- Serve with beignets and napkins. Many napkins.