When I get wound up like a clock sometimes the only thing that I really enjoy is having an ice cold Chocolate Egg Cream Soda! There is nothing better to take you back to a time when there were ice-cream parlours that made real home made ice cream, and had fantastic fountain drinks like a 2 cent plain, a cherry cola, an ice cream soda, a malted, a cold glass of tutti fruitti or a chocolaty egg cream soda.
A chocolate egg cream soda is an ice cream soda with out the ice cream. It is made of Chocolate syrup, ice cold milk, and ice cold seltzer that is stirred rapidly as you add the seltzer. The chocolate syrup was almost always Fox's U-Bet or Hershey's Chocolate syrup!
Some of the things that I miss most while living in Atlanta, are the comfort foods I used to find so easily back in New York. I've given up trying to find a lot of this items in the Atlanta area, so for Chocolate Egg Creams I can make it myself. It sure beats getting on AirTran to get it out of my system! LOL! For those of you that have never tried a Chocolate Egg Cream, you haven't lived until you do! So here is the recipe. Get back to me and let me know what you think! What foods do you miss from back home?
The Original Brooklyn Egg-Cream
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Take a tall, chilled, straight-sided, 8oz. glass
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Spoon 1 inch of U-bet Chocolate syrup into glass
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Add 1 inch whole milk
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Tilt the glass and add seltzer while stirring briskly to make a big chocolate head
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Stir, Drink, Enjoy
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Brian I must move to Northern Virginia! I am licensed there!
Steve I just made one last week, I have not had in years either!
Jim,
Just think of the new foods you have to choose from - RC Cola and moon pies, Goo-Goo clusters and Cheerwine.....
Stephen Grits are good!
Rita I gues that is why they call this stuff comfort food! LOL! I also miss a Nathan's Frank, real new York Pizza, a sausage and pepper sandwich, Bialey's, a real bagel, and other delicacies. They're my sould food!
OH Gawd Jim, you just brought back a flood of memories. I grew up on Egg Creme Sodas in NY. I used to make them once in a while, forgot all about them, now I am absolutely craving one.
I also loved the fountain cherry soda's.
My dad would make a couple of interesting concoctions also; orange soda with a splash of milk-delicious tastes like a half n half bar/cremecycle and creme soda with a splash of milk-also to die for delicious.
We also had the soda delivery company. They showed up every couple of weeks with a delivery of a case or two of bottled sodas (in glass bottles). It was assorted and every once in a while there would be a bottle of pineapple soda in the mix. I would jump up and down-it was a special treat.
Let's see, the milk was delivered every morning. It was left in a metal box on the front porch, again, in glass bottles. My sister and I would wake up early and bring the milk in. We would sit at the kitchen table and open every single bottle and scoop the creme off of the top and be in heaven. Of course the mother would wake up and yell at us every day for having opened all of the bottles and we would run off giggling only to do it again on the next delivery.
Silly things that still bring a smile to my face.
Steve once you try them you can get hooked. Since I go without them for 10 years or more, they are not that addictive, and a lot safer than hard drugs or alcohol! LOL! Try one you'll love it!
Laurie that was interesting how the big treat in our lives back then were simple treats that were not taken for granted. The memories still bring a smile to our face! Thanks for sharing!
Paula go for it! It will make you an honorary New Yawka! LOL!
David is so funny that I've gone for years without ever thinking of them. You kind of get sick of having a coke or a sweet tea in the south after a while. It was a refreshing change to go back down memory lane and have a fun fountain drink!
OMG! Thanx for the chocolate prescription for PERMA-PMS (permanent PMS). Just kidding. I grew up in NY with the Choc. Egg Creams. I haven't had one for years, off to the supermarket to get my ingredients. Thanx for the treat!