Big List of Old Fashioned Soda Fountain Drink Recipes

Directions
Put the chocolate sauce or syrup in the bottom of a large ice cream soda glass. Add half the root beer and mix well with a long soda spoon. Add 1 scoop ice cream, then top the glass with the remaining root beer. Traditionally, the remaining scoop of ice cream is balanced on the rim of the glass-press it down firmly so it doesn't dive onto the table.

Black Cow # 2
Ingredients

Directions
Pour root beer over ice cream and chocolate syrup in a large tumbler glass. Garnish with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Serve with a straw and a long spoon.

10 oz root beer

1 tbsp chocolate syrup

1 1/2 oz whipped cream

maraschino cherries

Black Cow # 3
Ingredients

Root beer

vanilla ice cream

chocolate syrup

Directions
Place 2 tablespoons of syrup in bottom of large glass. Add root beer, stirring until liquid is within 2 inches of top of glass. Add a huge scoop of ice cream.

Black Cow # 4
Ingredients

Two frosty full sized beer mugs

One 12 ounce bottle of premium root beer

One bottle of Hershey's Chocolate Syrup

Half gallon of premium vanilla ice cream

One can of Reddi Whip

Jimmies or Sprinkles

Marischino Cherries

Directions
Remove the frosty mugs from the freezer, and squirt a small amount of of Hersheys chocolate syrup in the bottom. Put a generous scoop of vanilla ice cream in the mug. Another squirt of chocolate syrup on top of the ice cream. Tilt the mug slightly to the side and pour the root beer in being careful to keep the foam/head to a minimum. Fill to about 3/4 of the way to the top. Use a spoon to scoop out any foam. Cover top with Reddi Whip. Sprinkle jimmies on whip cream and top with a cherry. Insert a flexi-straw and long teaspoon. Now the proper way to eat a black cow is to scoop out a little bit of ice cream, chocolate syrup, and root beer in every spoon, and then slurp up all the lovin' goodness left the bottom.

Black Cow Drink
Ingredients

10 oz Root Beer

1 tbsp Chocolate Syrup

2 scoops Vanilla Ice Cream

1 1/2 oz Whipping Cream

Directions
Pour root beer over ice cream and chocolate syrup in a large tumbler glass. Garnish with whipped cream and a maraschino cherry. Serve with a straw and a long spoon.

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Banana Split Dish - Glass	Fluted Fountain Glass	Fluted Sundae Dish - Glass

Black Cow Ice Cream Soda
Ingredients

1 1/2 tablespoons chocolate syrup

8 ounces root beer

Directions
Chill a 16-ounce glass in the freezer about 5 minutes before making the soda. Place the chocolate syrup in the bottom of the chilled glass. Add about 4 ounces root beer, stirring until well blended. Add 1 scoop of ice cream. Fill the glass with the remaining root beer. Top with the remaining scoop of ice cream, pressing it onto the rim of the glass. Serve immediately.

Black Cow # 5
Ingredients

3/4 to 1 cup cold root beer

3 small scoops vanilla ice cream, about 3/4 cup

cold club soda, optional

Directions
Fill a tall glass about 1/3 full with root beer. Add 1 scoop ice cream. Pour in about 1/4 cup more root beer. Add 2 more scoops of ice cream. Pour in enough root beer to fill glass. Serve with club soda to add for a little extra carbonation, if desired.

Black Cow # 6
Ingredients

1/2 gallon milk

4 (12 fluid ounce) cans or bottles root beer

Directions
In a large drink cooler or punch bowl, mix together the milk and root beer. Serve in tall glasses.

BROWN COW RECIPES

It appears to us, that in most areas, a Black Cow becomes a Brown Cow when you use cola instead of root beer. The ingredients would be:

Chocolate syrup
Vanilla ice cream
Cola soda

Once again there are regional differences. See Black Cow # 1 recipe and substitute cola for the root beer.

Brown Cow
Ingredients

Coca-Cola

2 tablespoons chocolate syrup

vanilla ice-cream

Directions
Place 2 tablespoons of syrup in bottom of large glass. Add cola, stirring until liquid is within 2 inches of top of glass. Add a huge scoop of ice cream.

EGG CREAM RECIPES

The egg cream is a New York tradition. Ironically, it doesn't have any egg or cream in it. Even so, it's still a soda fountain favorite.

Bronx Egg Cream
Ingredients

2 tablespoons chocolate syrup (Ubet or Bosco to be authentic)

5 ounces milk

3 ounces seltzer water

Directions
Mix the chocolate syrup and milk together. While stirring, add the seltzer and continue stirring. For true Bronx authenticity, wipe your mouth with your sleeve afterwards.

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Soda - Iced Tea Spoons

Soda - Iced Tea Spoon SS

Tall & Twisty Drink Spoon

Chocolate Egg Cream # 1
Ingredients

2 Tbs. chocolate syrup

1/3 cup milk

2/3 cup very cold seltzer water

Directions
Place syrup in the bottom of a soda-fountain glass, then add the milk and stir well. Add the seltzer water and stir quickly. Drink right away.

Chocolate Egg Cream # 2
Ingredients

1/4 cup chocolate syrup

1/2 cup cold milk

2/3 cup carbonated water, chilled

Directions
Pour chocolate syrup into chilled large glass. Gently stir in milk. Holding the carbonated water about 5 inches from the top of the glass, slowly pour into the glass until a thick foam comes to the top of the glass. Using a long swizzle stick, stir the mixture once quickly, make sure the foam does not bubble over the glass. Serve immediately.

Egg Cream # 1
Ingredients

2 tbsp chocolate syrup

6 oz whole milk

6 oz soda water

Directions
Mix syrup and milk in a tall glass. Add soda water, and serve with a straw.

Egg Cream # 2
Ingredients

2 tbs chocolate syrup

6 oz. whole milk

6 oz. seltzer

Directions
Mix syrup and milk in a fountain glass. Add seltzer, serve with a straw and a smile.

Egg Cream # 3
Ingredients

2 tbls chocolate syrup, Fox's U-bet brand is preferred

1/3 cup milk

2/3 cup ice-cold seltzer water

Directions
Put the chocolate syrup in the bottom of a large soda fountain glass. Add the milk and stir, blending (don't worry if a few streaks of unblended chocolate are at bottom of the glass - that's traditional.) Add the seltzer and stir vigorously. Of course the best way to add seltzer is to squirt it in with a seltzer bottle. But it's okay if you don't have a seltzer bottle, so long as the seltzer is very bubbly. A foamy head will rise to the top. Drink immediately. For more tingle and a higher head, use 1/4 cup milk and 3/4 cup of seltzer. For a richer egg cream, use half milk and half seltzer.

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Colorful Beverage Straws	Old Fashioned Straw Dispenser	Stainless Steel Drink Straws

New York Egg Cream # 1
Ingredients

2 tablespoons chocolate syrup

milk

seltzer, to serve

Directions
Put the chocolate syrup in a tall soda glass, fill ½ of the glass with milk. Stir with a long spoon. Top with the seltzer and serve-the top should be very frothy.

New York Egg Cream # 2
Ingredients

Approximately 1/2 cup cold whole milk

1 cup bottled seltzer

2 tablespoons chocolate syrup*

* Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup is used in New York.

Directions
Pour 1/2 inch of cold milk into a tall soda glass. Add seltzer or club soda to within 1 inch of the top of the glass; stir vigorously with a long spoon (this will cause it to become white and bubbly with a good head of foam). Very gently pour 2 tablespoons of chocolate syrup slowly down the inside of the glass; briskly stir with a long spoon only at the bottom of the glass where the chocolate sits. The resulting drink should have a dark brown bottom and a 1-inch high pure white foam top (if you mix it too much, the foam disappears). Makes 1 servings.

ICE CREAM FLOAT RECIPES

The most common ice cream float is made with 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with your choice of flavored soda.

Favorite floats
Ingredients

1 large scoop ice cream, such as vanilla, raspberry, or strawberry

1 small bottle flavored soda such as lime, raspberry, strawberry or cherry

Directions
Put the ice cream in the bottom of a tall soda glass. Add a parfait spoon and straws. Serve on a small saucer with the bottle of flavored soda. Each person adds soda, stirring the ice cream into the mix if preferred.

Orange Cream
Ingredients

1 scoop orange sorbet

1 scoop vanilla ice cream

orange soda

Directions
Place sorbet and vanilla ice cream in a soda-fountain glass. Slowly pour in orange soda, then top with additional scoop of orange sorbet.

Root Beer Float
Ingredients

Root beer soda

Directions
Fill a tall soda fountain glass 1/3 full with root beer. Add 2 scoops vanilla ice cream. Slowly pour more root beer down the side of the glass. This technique will give you more root beer and less foam in your glass. If you're all about the foamy head, pour the root beer over the ice cream. Whipped cream and a maraschino cherry are optional.

TIP ~ The best tool ever made to eat an ice cream float is the Sippin' Spoon - spoon and straw in one. These are not the flimsy spoon straws for shave ice. Our Sippin' Spoons are heavy duty plastic and will last for years.
Sippin Spoon Straw (set of 6)	Berlino Drink Spoon	Jumbo Milkshake Straws

LIME RICKEY RECIPES

Lime Rickey
Ingredients

3/4 oz fresh lime juice

1 oz simple syrup

3 dashes Angostura® bitters

6 - 8 oz club soda

Directions
Build all ingredients in a collins glass and top with soda. Garnish with a spiral of lime peel, and serve.

Lime Rickey Drink
Ingredients

3/4 oz (fresh) Lime Juice

8 oz Club Soda

1 oz Simple Syrup

3 dashes Angostura Bitters

Directions
Build all ingredients in a collins glass and top with soda. Garnish with a spiral of lime peel, and serve.

Lime Phosphate
Ingredients

juice from one lime

2 Tbs. simple sugar solution (1 cup water, 1 cup sugar, boiled to dissolve sugar)

2 cup club soda

Directions
Place sugar solution and lime juice in the bottom of a soda-fountain glass, then add club soda.

MALTS or MALTED
A malt, malted or malted milk shake is any milkshake with malted milk powder added. Start with one tablespoon of malted milk powder for your first malt. Use more or less to suit your taste. See Burn One and Burn One All The Way.

Burn One
"Burn one" is soda jerk lingo for making a milkshake into a malt or malted with the addition of malted milk powder. Add 2 tablespoons malted milk powder to any milkshake to "burn one". Our Big List of Milkshake Recipes is here.

Burn One All The Way
In the language of the soda jerk, "burn one all the way" referred to a chocolate malted made with chocolate ice cream.
Ingredients

2 Tbls malted milk powder

2 ounces chocolate syrup

Directions
Put all the ingredients in your blender. Blend until smooth. For a thinner malted add more milk. For a thicker malt add more ice cream.

Chocolate Malt or Malted
Ingredients

4 tbsp chocolate syrup like Hersheys

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp Malted Milk Powder

Directions
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

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Malted Milk Powder (2.5 pounds)	Soda Fountain Malted Milk Powder (1 pound)

Double Chocolate Malt - Malted
Ingredients

2 tbsp chocolate syrup like Hersheys

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tbsp Malted Milk Powder

Directions
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

Vanilla Malt or Malted
Ingredients

1 tbsp vanilla extract (or 2 oz Vanilla Syrup)

2 tbsp Malted Milk Powder

Directions
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

SHAKE or MILKSHAKE RECIPES
Shakes or milkshakes are a staple of soda fountains, malt shops and diners. The names and ingredients are a varied as the establishments that sold them. They all have these basic ingredients in common: ice cream, milk and flavoring. See the basic recipe below. For a treatise on shakes see our Milkshake page.

Shake One
"Shake one", as you may have guessed, is soda jerker for a milkshake.

Basic Shake Recipe
Ingredients

2 ounces flavored syrup of your choice, or

1/4 cup of your favorite flavor of ice cream topping or

1/4 cup of your favorite flavor of jam or preserves

Directions
Put all the ingredients in your blender. Blend until smooth. For a thinner shake add more milk. For a thicker milk shake add more ice cream. Add more flavor ingredient if needed to suite your taste.

Shake One All The Way
Chocolate milkshake made with chocolate ice cream
Ingredients

2 ounces chocolate syrup

Directions
Put all the ingredients in your blender. Blend until smooth. For a thinner shake add more milk. For a thicker milk shake add more ice cream.

Shake One In The Hay
Strawberry Milkshake
Ingredients

2 ounces strawberry syrup or 1/4 cup strawberry ice cream topping or strawberry preserves

Directions
Put all the ingredients in your blender. Blend until smooth. Add more syrup or strawberry preserves to suit your taste. Can also be made with strawberry ice cream. For a thinner shake add more milk. For a thicker milk shake add more ice cream.

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Paneled Fountain Glass	Paneled Sundae Dish	Paneled Tumbler - Glass 16oz

Twist It, Choke It, and Make It Cackle
Soda jerk jargon defined "twist it, choke it, and make it cackle" as a chocolate malted with a raw egg. Some authors suggest the term can be added to any malt as in "burn one peach, twist it, choke It, and make it cackle". You would get a peach malted milk shake with a raw egg.
Ingredients

2 Tbls malted milk powder

2 ounces chocolate syrup

Directions
Add the ice cream, syrup, malted milk powder and milk to your blender. Add the raw egg to the rest of the ingredients in the blender (without the shell of course). Blend all ingredients until smooth. For a thinner malted add more milk. For a thicker malt add more ice cream. You can also adjust the amount of malted milk powder to suit your taste.

1 egg

SODA FOUNTAIN SODAS
Old fashioned soda fountain sodas are not quite the same as floats. Soda fountain sodas use syrup and seltzer (carbonated water) rather than a flavored soda. The Black & White is a good example of a soda fountain soda.

Black & White (soda fountain soda)
Ingredients

2 Tbls chocolate syrup

Directions
Pour syrup into a tall glass. Fill half full with seltzer or club soda. Stir vigorously with a long spoon. Add ice cream. It will start foaming. If there is any room left in the glass, fill to top with more seltzer.

Seltzer

Catawba Flip
The traditional flavoring is grape syrup, but grape juice will work fine.
Ingredients

1 scoop vanilla ice cream

Directions
Put all the ingredients in a blender, except the seltzer. Blend until smooth. Pour into the glass and fill with seltzer water.

Chocolate Soda
Ingredients

3 Tbsp. chocolate syrup

1 Tbsp. milk

1 scoop ice cream (chocolate, vanilla or other)

soda water (carbonated water - not club soda)

Directions
Put the syrup and the milk into the glass. Stir well. Add the ice cream. Fill the glass with soda water. Stir again.

Old Fashioned Soda Fountain Soda
This is the basic recipe. You can use any syrup flavor.
Ingredients

3 ounces syrup, your choice of flavor

Seltzer or club soda

1 to 2 scoops vanilla ice cream

Directions
Pour syrup into a tall glass. Fill half full with seltzer or club soda. Stir vigorously with a long spoon. Add ice cream. The ice cream will react with the carbonation and the foaming will start. If there is any room left in the glass, fill to top with more seltzer.

Strawberry Soda
Ingredients

1/4 cup strawberry syrup

a splash of milk

seltzer

vanilla or strawberry ice cream

WHITE COW RECIPES
A "white cow" is soda jerk jargon for a vanilla milkshake.

White Cow 1
Ingredients

2 ounces vanilla syrup

Directions
Add all the ingredients to your blender. Blend until smooth. For a thinner milk shake add more milk. For a thicker milk shake add more ice cream. Add a little more syrup if you really like vanilla.

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Soda Fountain Spoons - Heavy Plastic	Big Big Big 12" Drink Straw	Biodegradable Beverage Straw

White Cow 2
Ingredients

1/2 cup milk

1/2 cup heavy cream

1/2 pint vanilla ice cream

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions
Blend until smooth. And if you like a malted shake (yum!), add 1-2 Tbs of malted milk powder to the shake.

White Cow 3
Ingredients

1 tbsp vanilla extract