How do I make a genuine New York Egg Cream with a Motor or Motorless Carbonators and a soda draft arm. See our Small Shop Soda Fountain Kit and our Seltzer Refrigerator Conversion Kit. Thats the right equipment just like New York. While the Fountail Jet and Edition 1 Machines and the Soda Syphon make seltzer they are really no substitute for the right equipment.
The answer is simple but the results can vary just like they did from soda fountain to soda fountain back in New York around the 1950's. The soda jerk made all the difference. The ingredients are simple: whole milk, chocolate syrup (See Note 1) and seltzer water (see note 2). That's right, there are no eggs and no cream in a real New York egg cream.
Now for the details. You start by putting about an inch of milk into a glass. Then add a little seltzer. Now pour in some chocolate syrup. Make it heavy or cheap, its your drink. After stirring this mixture with a spoon until all the chocolate is well blended add seltzer to the mix to make up about ¾ the glasses volume. Now fill remainder of the glass with seltzer by pushing the seltzer draft arm to the back position. This creates the cream head. Here is where the carbonator and seltzer draft arm are almost indispensable. Soda syphons just does not have the power to make it right. The seltzer draft arm is required to provide maximum creamy head. Remember you always have to work with what you got. Now gently add a little more syrup and stir gently with a spoon to provide a multi tone egg cream. I am told that a really good soda jerk can obtain 4 distinct colors, white, two shades of tan and brown. Enjoy.
A real egg cream demands the use of real Brooklyn (Kings County, New York) tap water for making the seltzer, but that a story for another time. Any water can do for the less mature tastes since we are not all fortunate enough to have cheap access to Brooklyn tap water.
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It must be Fox's U-Bet chocolate syrup to be a real egg cream. We do not supply it but many major national food chains carry it in the chocolate syrup sections. Ask for it by name, Fox's U-Bet Fountain Syrup. You may already know about the legendary Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup. It is essential to create an authentic New York Egg Cream (there's no egg in it so consider it "Brooklyneze" for "Taste This"). Egg Creams are a frothy chocolate milk beverage with beautiful three and four color layers which only come with years of practice and an advanced degree in Applied Creaminetics.
Fox's U-Bet also has syrups in ten other great flavors: Black Cherry, Ginger Ale, Piņa Colada, Cola, Lemon-Fizz Up, Root beer, Diet Cola, Lemon-Lime, Watermelon, and Vanilla but who cares. |
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