How do you actually make this creamy, consistent white milk foam?, that protrudes two centimeters above the dark coffee and that used to be in the Bären restaurant, Heimenschwand, the Ovaltine in a white tall cup (with Ovaltine imprint), served simmering hot, made a culinary delight?
Speaking of Heimenschwand bears: the Sääli is equipped from head to toe of paneled light wood. Small gable windows. And when the sun fell in the afternoon, one sipped his milk foam in a large golden cup, got sleepy from the warm benches and the calm. The waitress was knitting over her apron, the only farmer in the shadow green suit leaned over the gaze. The lowlands were really far away, it disappeared into an area of the “By hearsay”.
I thought often, I want to move to Heimenschwand **, to Süderen or Oberei in one of these vacant ones, collapsing farmhouses, a Stöckli or leftover brick village house. Far and wide only well-formed hills lined with small rustic forest wreaths. The smell of manure and the philosophy of standing and pausing of cows and small newts in the pond against the wax thorn moss. In winter it froze over and the tall reeds were covered with hoarfrost. we often thought up there, we could be in Finland. But then one of these garden gnomes came out again. And an old mountain dog stroked our legs, growling angrily.
**But I also love fashion.
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