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Egg Cream

A New York soda-fountain classic with no egg and no cream. Chocolate syrup, cold milk, and seltzer stirred to a foamy head.

Glass
Collins glass
Method
Build
Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients
3

Ingredients

  • 1 oz Chocolate Syrup, Fox's U-Bet is traditional
  • 2½ oz Whole Milk, very cold
  • 5 oz Soda Water, seltzer, very cold

Garnish: None

How to make it

  1. Pour the chocolate syrup into a collins glass, then add the cold milk.
  2. Pour in the seltzer, aiming at a spoon so it foams up.
  3. Stir hard until the chocolate dissolves and a white head forms. Serve right away.