So what is an egg cream? I want to try!!!!

Trixie's love affair with seltzer continues!

i didn't know that people drank egg creams down south. I'm born and raised in the egg cream "capital" (brooklyn, ny) and i'm always HATED them.

jessica- an egg cream is choc syrup, milk and seltzer. no eggs, no cream, go figure... :-)

Ben, that cup looks familiar. Where did it come from?

Interesting... but I'll stick with the milk & chocolate syrup :) LOL Cute picture! (pretty eyes!)

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Michele:
If I'm not mistaken, I do believe Ben & Jenn have spent some time living in New York pre-Trixie, which is probably where they first learned about the infamous egg cream (aka fizzy chocolate milk). I'm with you, though. I don't touch 'em with a 10-foot pole!

Actually, I'm more interested in products that are marketed as "vintage." What, exactly, is vintage seltzer?

Rob: We have a couple of those and they have come from different restaurants, so I think it's sort of a generic product. I can't remember exactly which restaurants though. Maybe Jenn can help.

michele: Thanks for the link! I had forgotten about that receipt. And yes, moving the Bronx was how I got exposed to them -- Jenn knew about them from when she was a kid.

All: I updated the poll (on the homepage) for the first time in about 4 years. Just for fun.

I think they made egg cream in an episode of Seinfeld.

My fave book as a kid was 'Harriet the Spy' and Harriet's fave drink was an egg cream. I always pictured them as a sort of vanilla milkshake. It's cool to finally find out what they are! Maybe I'll try making one...is seltzer the same as soda water?

Egg cream? Go all the way and have an ice cream soda. Superior product, not that much worse for you.

Ugh, just the thought of what that must taste like turns my stomach. I've never been one for carbonated dairy products. I despise root beer floats. I once went to lunch with my principal as a kid and he mixed milk and Pepsi together and I thought that he was crazy. Who thinks of mixing such strange things together?

Laverne on 'Laverne and Shirley' used to mix Pepsi and milk - I tried it once with Kahlua thrown in and it was amazing! Go figure! (Just one more to gross you out!)

I was watching Season 3 DVD of the Gilmore Girls last night....and a customer in Luke's Diner asked for a "egg cream" from Luke. I didn't know what 'egg cream' was until I saw it here in TTU.

Ok so before I go to the store and mess it up.....how much selzer, how much milk and how much syrup? And what kind of selzer, does it matter?

Jessica: There are probably folks that argue over the exact nature of an egg cream, but I'm not one of them. I just fill the glass half-way up with milk, stir in about a tablespoon of chocolate syrup and then fill the rest with seltzer and give it one stir. No idea if the brand/kind of seltzer matters, but I sure wouldn't use flavored :)

Here's another recipe from the splendid table if you want to try different proportions. Good luck!

Ok so I got tonic water...is that the same thing as seltzer? I couldnt find anything that just said seltzer.

> tonic water...is that the same thing as seltzer?

Definitely not. I think that would give it a pretty wacky (horrible) taste. Save the tonic for your gin :)

Many grocery stores sell seltzer water in 1 liter and 2 liter bottles on the soda aisle -- it doesn't have to be in cans. I hope you can find some!

Oh man! I knew i would mess it up!! Thats where I got the tonic water, in the soda aisle with the 1 liters of other clear water type things. Does it specifically say seltzer on it?

Yes, it definitely, specifically, absolutely says seltzer on the label.

Here's a page that might help lest you are tempted to come home with club soda, 7-up or margarita mix :)

Original Brooklyn Egg Cream Recipe

Even though, as i've said upthread, I can't stand the stuff, I'm told that it tastes even better with U-Bet brand chocolate syrup. I have no idea if that's availible oustise of NYC though....Enjoy

If you are in NYC, probably one of the most famous places (at least in Manhattan) to get an egg cream is Sammy's Roumanian. There, they actually make it with the kind of seltzer that comes in a glass bottle with its own CO2 cartridge - which, I am sure purists would argue, is the only way to really make an egg cream. (Though you definitely still need a spoon, the shooting, fizzing seltzer agitates the milk and chocolate syrup a bit.)

Those old glass bottles make for beautiful, collectible antiques these days, by the way.

Actually, the first place that I thought of was Junior's, but, of course being a displaced Brooklynite, my bias is obvious. :-)