User:WayDustin/Beaten coffee

Beaten coffee is an Indian home-style coffee beverage made mostly with instant coffee and sugar. It is known as 'beaten' as the process involves beating the coffee and sugar together with a spoon to aerate into a light brown fluffy paste-like substance. It is generally served with warm milk, which creates a thick froth on the top. Another popular way of serving it is by pouring the paste on top of a cup of warm or cold milk.

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It is sometimes referred to as soft coffee, hand-beaten Indian Cappuccino, Indian Coffee, Pakistani Coffee, Desi Coffee, Phentui Hui, Fitti Hui, ghar ghar ki khanani, or Whipped Coffee.

We originally chose this article because we saw it was a stub which could be greatly improved, and we were intrigued by the origins of beaten coffee and its similarity to Dalgona coffee. However, we were unable to find any robust sources that fit under the Wikipedia guidelines. Initially, we had planned to add a culture section, an ingredients section, and some images. However, because the only concrete information we could find traced the origin back to Korean culture, we felt that any culture information we could add would be better suited to the Dalgona coffee article. We considered merging the Beaten Coffee article with the Dalgona Coffee article, but discovered there was already a merger proposition and that merging would present an issue of ignoring beaten coffee in Indian culture in favor of the more popular Dalgona coffee in Korean culture. Any other information gathered about the origin is unreliable, although it is widely agreed that "Beaten Coffee" is an Indian style Cappuccino. An ingredients section would mostly just include references to other Wikipedia articles like that of instant coffee and sugar, so there isn't much in that either although we have considered adding that before we move on. We elected not to search for images because we plan to scrap this article due to the lack of robust sources. Our new article is relatively short with a large reference section, so we are confident we will be able to find sources we can use. We feel we can do no more with this article and are officially changing our topic to Earl Grey Tea. Dustin was responsible for searching for sources, Katherine was responsible for researching the origins and history of beaten coffee,

We have not had much time to research or edit the Earl Grey Tea article extensively, but from what we have been able to research we have already found information that can be added to the Wikipedia article utilizing the existing sources in the reference section. We plan to update the images with more appealing and accurate pictures, add to the history and flavourings sections to make them more robust, perhaps add a culture section, and researching the toxicology section and evaluating whether the information belongs in the article.