How To Make Milk Shakes

How To Make Milk Shakes For the coolest, most refreshing milk shakes, chill the milk and make sure the ice cream is frozen hard before making your milk shake. Shakes may be made quickly in a kitchen blender, but you can also make one the old-fashioned way by placing all the ingredients in a sealed container and vigorously shaking it until it is thoroughly mixed and frothy -- a classic milk shake.

Vanilla Milk Shake, or White Cow

You can easily make a traditional vanilla milk shake -- known as a "White Cow" -- by smoothly blending 3 or 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream, 1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract, and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk, depending on the size of your container.

Chocolate Milk Shake, or Brown Cow

You can make a chocolate milk shake or "Brown Cow" by blending 3 or 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract, 1/4 cup of chocolate syrup, and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk. If you want a richer, more chocolatey shake, then use chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla.

Milk Shakes, Any Flavor

Simply add 1 or 2 ounces of any flavor of old-time "fountain syrup" to 3 or 4 scoops of homemade ice cream and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk, then shake or blend till frothy.

Malted Shakes

Malted Milk Shakes or "Malts" were once very popular, but they are not often seen on today's fast-food menus. This always puzzles me since there is nothing like the rich, full-bodied taste of a Malt. You haven't lived till you've tasted an old-fashioned "Chocolate Malt"; they are especially good.

Milk shakes

To make this old-time ice cream parlor treat, just make your milk shake as usual, but first add to it a tablespoonful or two of malted milk powder. Malted milk powder is available at most food stores.

Vanilla Milk Shake Recipe The old-fashioned milk shake recipe  

Fill a glass two-thirds full of milk, sweeten to taste with any fruit syrup or with sugar, and then flavor with vanilla. Fill glass up with cracked ice and shake well together until thoroughly mixed.

Milk Shake Recipes

These early recipes for milk shakes are taken from an old recipe scrapbook of 1929. The first is from an unidentified newspaper clipping of 1912.

Refreshing Milk Drink for Summer

Put into a tumbler about two tablespoonfuls of broken ice, two tablespoonfuls of chocolate syrup, three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream, one gill of milk, and half a gill of soda water from a siphon bottle or Apollinaris water. Stir well before drinking. A tablespoonful of vanilla ice cream is a desirable addition. It is a delicious drink, even if the soda or Apollinaris water and ice cream be omitted.

A plainer drink is made by combining the syrup, a gill and a half of milk, and the ice, and shaking well.

Wild Frosty Chocolate Drink

1-1/2 tablespoonfuls chocolate fountain syrup, 1/2 cup milk, 4 tablespoonfuls ice cream, soda water. Combine syrup, milk, and ice cream. Stir well or shake. Add soda water to fill glass.

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