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 Did you know that Milk Shakes were originally made by shaking milk?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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"Make it RIGHT!!" 🤣🤣🤣
I was taught to put the chocolate in first but great video.
my elderly dad kinda acts like your daughter. minus the kicking and the high five.
I love how she orders you to drink the vanilla shake with her. You better enjoy it!
I love how she gives zero fucks to your plans
So cool that you mentioned Lofty Pursuits. After watching his videos for two years, I was able to actually visit the shop In Tallahassee. Wonderful place, wonderful candy!
But,
Without the seltzer it's just a chocolate milk…!
Why did her sass at the beginning make me feel bad for you?
Edit: I felt stupid as well.
Greg you should do one of these again. This was so sweet
Ahh, cute overload! Would you have Sid on again now that she's a bit older? I feel like a six/seven year old might be fun to do an episode with!
Petition for new title: "Based Three Year Old Prefers Vanilla to Chocolate"
Every time we watch this my wife ans I crack up when she says "It's apicy!" That's our catchphrase when ever we get spicy food!! 😂
I too have caught myself randomly looking at the pheasant and wanting to touch it to find out if it's stuffed or plastic…
oh please tell me you're still making these. my son would adore this
Aw
bring her back!
I think this is the favorite episode I've seen she is adorable
I would love more videos like this
Yep she’s three. My youngest is three total anarchist.
"There is not an egg in an egg cream, there never has been" –Incorrect.
You don't need a strainer. 😂 Control the smaller mixing pitcher's seal with the larger, easy peasy. 2 years bartending in college coming back to haunt me, lol.
I don’t have my crown yet just killed me
Yeah, egg creams are a rabbit hole
If she says, my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard I will die