How To Make a New York Chocolate Egg Cream

New York Chocolate Egg Cream

Made with Gluten Free and Nut Free Ingredients.

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Is it a milkshake? No. Frozen hot chocolate? No. Ice cream float? No. This, my friends, is a New York Chocolate Egg Cream. If your extended family didn’t grow up in NYC in 1930s-1960s, you might have no idea what the heck this is.

A Chocolate Egg Cream is a classic soda fountain drink that used to be served in candy stores and is still served at select places today! The name itself is very confusing as it contains neither eggs nor cream. So how did it get this odd name? There are lots of theories out there. According to an article by Rebecca Paul, most confirm the drink originated on the Lower East Side among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants. She goes on to say that one theory is that “egg cream“ is an Americanization of “echt keem” which is Yiddish for, “pure sweetness.”

Another theory states that A-grade milk was used to make the drink and the name went from Chocolate A Cream to Chocolate Egg Cream due to people mishearing “A” as “egg.” Paul mentions a third possibility where a Yiddish theater pioneer asked a New York soda jerk to make a Parisian drink called “chocolate et creme,” and the name was lost in translation. She then points out that Food historian, Andrew Smith, mentions that in the 1800s there was a popular drink made with raw eggs, cream, chocolate syrup mixed into soda water and the Egg Cream that we know, (without the eggs and cream), was made in the poorer neighborhoods where eggs and cream were too expensive to be used in a beverage. But Rebecca Paul states the most popular theory is that a man by the name of Louis Auster who owned a candy shop on the lower east side, created the drink by accident and it became so popular that he sold thousands per day around 1900.

So I guess we will never know exactly how this drink came to be, BUT there are three things we do know. It contains 3 ingredients: Brooklyn Fox’s U-bet Chocolate Syrup (it has to be this syrup), ice cold milk and ice cold seltzer water. My uncle will tell you that any old seltzer water just won’t do and you need the old fashioned seltzer water. He told me a company by the name of Brooklyn Seltzer Boys, is the last remaining seltzer shop in the city (continued)

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