Video | Making Frappé (Greek iced instant coffee)

   Here I am with the first ever Digital Scullery video in English. Cheers to all the friends of the Greek blog for the idea, by the way if people hate the video I’m blaming you 

I honestly thought about doing the Greek accent but I sound so fake that I just stuck to my own. So no funnies there I think. Anyway.

In this first ever Digital Scullery video in English the only classic recipe from modern Greece I could think of was the Frappé coffee – beloved in Greece. The actual phrase “drinking Frappé ” in Greek has become sort of like a cultural symbol. Depending on the context it could mean that you’re just chilling or – in some cases – that you are just lazying about.

So, on to some history. Frappé literally means shaken. It’s a way of preparing instant coffee. The legend goes that in 1957, at the Thessaloniki International Trade Fair, Dimitrios Vakondios, a Nestle employee wanted to make a hot cuppa with their Nescafé instant coffee. He couldn’t find hot water so he used some cold water in a shaker. The rest – as they say – is history.

 by the best Greek cook Sofia