Brooklyn Egg Cream - Drink

This is the quintessential New York fountain drink. Contrary to its name, it has no eggz and really no cream. An excellent accompaniment to your Instructables Robot Burger - Roboburger.

It is an art to make one and even harder to find the seltzer bottles with the siphon head to recreate that nostalgic soda fountain memory.

Step 1 Raid the fridge...

For this you need:

• Seltzer or plain carbonated water. You may be lucky and have one of those bar drink soda chargers which use the CO2 cartridges and pressurize the dispenser. Search for the instructables that show you how to charge your own soda water.
• milk, try not to use skim or lowfat as it does not give the desired result.
• chocolate syrup - Made in Brooklyn, New York, Fox's U-Bet brand syrup is the only one you should use ( _{not an endorsement of any kind but a statement of fact.} ) OK, you may get away with lesser brands.
• a Coca-Cola style fountain drink glass or any tall glass/slim mug and a long spoon to stir the drink.

Comments

[JezebelJelly]

a defininately have to agree with you about the u-bet being the best syrup !

[brassclams]

I hate milk! Can I use soy milk instead?

[caitlinsdad]

There is some chemical reaction going on with something in real milk and the carbonated water - think mentos-like. I have never tried it with soy milk so I do not know if it will foam up like real milk does. You may just end up with a watered down soy drink spritzer. Can't hurt to try though.

[MadBricoleur]

mmmMMmm sounds good! fived and faved. i wanna make some tomorrow.

[rhett]

my favorite is with vanilla syrup

[GorillazMiko]

This is Sparta!!

[jakee117]

no this is awesome! five stars and favorited