Three Year old tries an Egg Cream & A Old-School Milk Shake | How to Drink

This week I brought my daughter to work and we're making and tasting some classic soda fountain drinks, which makes me a Soda Jerk.

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This week on How to Drink I'm clearly taking a break from our regularly scheduled programming so I can hang out with my kid Sidney, and together we make some old school classic Soda Fountain drinks, namely an Egg-Cream and and a Milk Shake. We also make a chocolate milk but weirdly she doesn't even touch that and it really doesn't count so forget about that for a minute. So let's start with an Egg Cream, which is super fun, because it doesn't have eggs or cream in it, and it never did! There's a common myth I hear about Egg Creams that when properly made they have an egg, or cream, or- something. The point is, they don't, they've never had eggs or cream in them. According to another Internet Greg with an amazing channel called Lofty Pursuits, it's probably a mispronunciation of the French Chocolat et Creme- spoken in Brooklyn it sounds like Chocolate Egg Cream and boom, the legend is born. So what is a chocolate egg cream? It's essentially a chocolate milk, made with seltzer, and violently frothed up with a spoon. It's also wonderful.

After we try the egg cream, and skipping over the pointless chocolate milk but which I couldn't really excise from this edit, we made a very old school milk shake. Did you know that Milk Shakes were originally made by shaking milk? They were. No ice cream needed. There's actually a lot of wonderful recipes for quite complex milkshakes and the like in the book Fix the Pumps by Darcy O'neil, but I'd already struck out twice with my kid and I wasn't chancing anything on this, I stuck with an incredibly simple vanilla shake. It's light and frothy and airy and honestly very pleasant to drink and nothing like the melted soft serve of a typical present day milk shake.


Egg Cream

~4 oz. -or- ~120 ml. Whole Milk
~6 oz. -or- ~180 ml. Seltzer
~2 oz. -or- ~60 ml. Chocolate Syrup
Build in a tall shake glass
mix to a froth with a spoon

Milk Shake

~5 oz. -or- ~150 ml. Whole Milk
~3 oz. -or- ~90 ml. Vanilla Syrup
Shake over ice
Serve in a tall shake glass

Chocolate Syrup (from Lofty Pursuits)

3 Parts Sugar
1 Part Cocoa Powder
1.5 Parts Water
Dash Salt
1/4 tsp. Vanilla
Bring Water + Sugar to Boil
Whisk in Cocoa
Add Salt + Vanilla
Cool + Bottle

Vanilla Syrup
There's no recipe here,
Just make Simple Syrup and add vanilla till you like the way it tastes.

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