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I love coffee.
True fact. It’s my lifeblood. My drug. My happy place.
So as you can imagine, I was pretty concerned about how I’d get coffee in Scotland. Thankfully, the coffee here is plentiful (there are like 23804823948 cafes in St. Andrews), but the first thing I noticed about every cup o’ joe? It was always served with milk.
Some people in the U.S. already put milk in their coffee, but I’m a die-hard half-and-half fanatic. I like something creamy, but not too creamy, and none of that watery milk nonsense, either.
At first, I just figured the hotels we stayed in didn’t have a lot of options. I was certain I’d walk into the local store and pick up a nice carton of half-and-half.
False.
They don’t sell it here. In fact, they only sell “single cream” and “double cream” (what amounts to “heavy cream” and “whipping cream” in the U.S., I think) and it’s sold in those little yogurt-like cups with no way to reseal them. I bought one figuring cream was better than milk, but the lack of re-seal-ability, coupled with how very heavy it tasted, convinced me that wasn’t my best bet.
That’s when it donned on me: What is half-and-half but half cream and half milk? Cue light bulb!
So once our milk was half empty, I poured in the contents of the single cream and gave it a good shake-aroo. The result? It bubbles when poured into the coffee, but it simmers down and tastes precisely like good ole half-and-half.
So there you go! Next time you are abroad needing a coffee fix, think of this simple trick.
We had to do a similar thing on a trip we took to Mexico!! It was not going to be a true vacation if my coffee was not perfect ☺
That’s what’s so crazy about travel 🙂 Fun experiences but sometimes you just need some Joe 🙂
What a great idea!! Thanks for sharing 🙂