Coffee-time, as a tea-time is one of the most popular. Usually one can be invited to coffee at the end of the day, after 6 p.m. It is also severed at the end of the feast thereby stress the festival’s conclusion.
In order to leave a good impression by guests from the party, you should pay a proper attention on table appointments. An excellent decoration for the coffee table can be flowers, candlesticks with candles, ash-treys. Usually coffee is served with canapés, pies, biscuits, cookies, sweet nuts, fruits and cakes. It is acceptable to put on the table a box of chocolate, as well as juices, mineral water and lemon slices.
An indispensable condition for coffee table is hot milk, served in milk jug, cream in cream-jug and sugar.
As coffee’s aromatizes you can offer to your guest cognac and various liqueurs. Different kind of coffee has its own service peculiarities.
So coffee with milk is served not in coffee- but in tea-cups or in cappuccino cups. Similarly is served Viennese coffee, adding before usage whipping cream. It should seem, as easy as pie – to drink a cup of hot beverage. But it simplicity is quite deceptive. On account of some reasons, the rules of coffee and tea usage are often not complied. Let us remind these rules.
- It is not polite to leave a spoon in a tea cup. Put your spoon on the saucer.
- It is not acceptable to dip cookies in a drink.
- Do not drink tea or coffee when food hadn’t yet swallowed.
- Coffee is usually drunk hot, with little sips and without loud sounds.
- Take saucer in a left hand and cup in a right.
- When you drink coffee with milk, leave saucer on the table.
- You shouldn’t stick out a little finger pretentiously, as well as push finger in a cup handle.
- If there isn’t any special sugar-tongs, do not take sugar with a teaspoon, take it with a hand and put in the cup.
- As a rule, coffee with liqueurs is drunk not in the dining-room but in the sitting-room.
- Coffee is required little spoons, and mocha coffee is needed very little spoons.
Ladies are leisurely sipping liqueurs, gentlemen – cognac and other strong drinks. Coffee, which successfully combines with alcohol, in a great measure sets off spirits` taste and flavor, as well as neutralizes its strength and creates aromatic composition.
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Tags: cappuccino, coffee mocha, etiquette, liqueur, milk, Viennese coffee
