RE: [gardeners] How to make a milkshake (...was Eggplant grinder)

Doug Reed (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 11 Jul 2001 14:21:54 -0700 (PDT) 

Margaret,
I grew up in Mississippi, which is where I learned to jerk sodas. I don't
even know if malt base is still made, so maybe all milkshakes are now made
with ice cream. I haven't had a milkshake in quite a while. I guess I just
made to many of them. I also made lots of root beer floats and banana splits.
I still enjoy those on occassion.

Don't know if the places you mentioned are still in Boulder. I generally only
come into Boulder to work. I actually live in a small town called Lyons which
is about 20 miles NW of Boulder. I use Boulder in my .sig because most people
have never heard of Lyons.

-Doug Reed
-Boulder, CO

--- Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Well now, Doug, I grew up in Boulder, Colorado, and they made milkshakes 
> with ice cream there. Bet they still do. If Custard's Last Stand is still 
> in existence on Broadway, it used to be the site of Bush's famous drive-in, 
> where they made peanut butter shakes (reluctantly, since the blender was 
> hell to clean) and the predecessor of the Big Mac. Also, you could order a 
> glass of root beer and cream or double cream, and you'd get those tiny 
> glass cream containers to dump into your root beer.  Yummmm. And further 
> down Broadway, between Pearl and Walnut was a large fountain owned by a 
> dairy. Watts Hardy was one of the dairies, but i think the fountain was 
> owned by another.  They used to make and sell "walking sundaes," ice cream 
> in a cup topped with sundae toppings.
>   Margaret L
> 
> At 12:47 PM 7/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Margaret,
> >
> >When I was growing up, my dad employed me as a "Soda Jerk" in his
> >Drug Store/Soda Fountain. I must have made a million milkshakes/malts.
> >
> >The "Ice Cream" part of a milkshake was actually something called
> >malt base. We got it delivered from the same supplier that we got
> >our regular dipping ice cream. Malt base looks a lot like vanilla
> >ice cream but has a slightly different texture without much flavor.
> >
> >To make a milkshake I would take the metal milkshake container, add
> >flavored syrup, malt base, and whole milk then attach it to the
> >trusty Hamilton Beach milkshake blender (I still have this blender and
> >a couple of the metal milkshake containers). When blended, pour into a large
> >glass. To make a malt I just added some malt powder to the above mixture.
> >
> >-Doug Reed (still making milkshakes in my sleep)
> >-Boulder, CO
> >
> >
> >--- Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > > What do they contain then?
> > >
> > > At 10:09 AM 7/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > >
> > > >--- Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
> > > >wrote:
> > > > > Whoa! I don't have a clue what "breve" is other than
> > > > > in "alla breve", and
> > > > > since when did milkshakes not contain ice cream?
> > > > > Margaret L
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >In Boston milkshakes don't contain ice cream.
> > > >
> > > >Stacey
> > >
> >
> >
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