BS: how you make a milkshake

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 11:05 AM

we preferred to think of ourselves as "Southern Maine" or even "Far-Eastern Rhode Island" *grin*

I guess I'm showing my age - but remember when we first got a local Friendly's and then later a McDonalds - we were astonished that their 'milkshakes' were actually frappes.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 10:37 AM

"Frappe" is, I think, a term from the effete Easterners. Back when I was growing up in the Midwest, we called 'em milkshakes. To make one, you first fed a cow the flavor you wanted (garlic is good) and the got her really, really cold. Wearing gloves (it's udderly awful to get your fingers frozen to the cow), you milked her into your milkshake glass. Since the stuff was so thick this was difficult, and the difficulty was compounded by the shivering of the cow, the moving "faucets," and often by an irate dairy farmer.

Way into the Effete East, in Massachu...Masa...Far Southern Vermont, my wife says they were called "Awful-Awfuls" at the friendly local Friendly's.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,mmARIO
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 10:27 AM

Cabinets add an egg to the milk and ice cream and flavourings.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Peg
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 10:07 AM

somewhere in America they also call them "cabinets."

I never liked these; too much like melted ice cream for my taste. But a good fruit smoothie is nice...

Ben and Jerry's has another caramel flavor?? Oh dear...I am already a fan of Triple Caramel Chunk and Vanilla Fudge Twirl (or is it Vanilla Caramel Fudge? It is also Spike Lee's favorite).

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 09:26 AM

milkshakes consist of milk and a flavouring syrup - whipped and/or shaken.

FRAPPES have ice cream added.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 08:23 AM

Ice cream -- a good brand, your choice of flavor but I suggest using the same flavor as your shake (e.g., strawberry for a strawberry shake).

The flavor(s) -- GOOD chocolate syrup (not Hersheys, which is chocolate flavored and contains no chocolate -- read the label), fresh fruit, etc.

Half-and-half, cream, or heavy cream, depending upon your level of decadence.

A tinge of real vanilla extract, a slug of your favorite liquor, etc. (optional and to your taste).

Put it all in a blender and blenderize it.



I never said it was low-fat, or healthy, or anything, but it IS good.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: fogie
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 05:46 AM

Add amaretto to everything!This week I have been eating mainly.....
Ben and Jerry's Caramel chew chew, and sod the milk!!

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,amergin
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 04:31 AM

I take Milo and put a few spponfuls in the blender with ice and cream..and powerded milk and a little water...its great...

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 02:52 AM

Threaten it repeatedly.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: mg
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 02:32 AM

for chocolate ice cream there is no better in my opinion than Tilamook out of Oregon    mg

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: open mike
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 01:49 AM

use malt for a sweet treat.
bananas are best if peeled
before freezing.
smoothies using fruit juice
and yogurt are good with
frozen bananas or other
fruit, and for healthy
addition sprinkle in some food yeast.
(not brewers yeast that stuff is gacky.)
then yo might need one of those straw
gadgets witha spoon on the end like
you get at fat food places that make
shakes and malts. are they called
stroons? spraws? (they certainly
would not call them spaws) to scoop
out the thick delicious goody!

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 01:48 AM

Hey Mudlark - want to come and show me more recipes?

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Mudlark
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 01:46 AM

Milkshakes are the ticket, never did like malts...too gacky. The one thing that sets a choc. shake above all others is coffee. Either coffe ice cream, or coffee...very strong coffee...as the liquid. A healthy dash of vanilla extract, the real thing, doesn't hurt either. And if you're into whipped cream on top, a dusting of nutmeg is not amiss.

Or....one can go the more interesting, alcoholic route, i.e. a brandy Alexandar: coffee ice cream (or if you are a purist, choc. ice cream, better the brand, better the drink), kalua or creme de cacao, and brandy with enough ice added, if necessary, to keep it thick. Granted, one might not want to go whole hog and fill a 16 oz. glass with this concoction...but on the other hand...one might.

My personal fav. is a grasshopper...again an alcoholic shake, made of mint ice cream, creme de menthe and brandy, a bit of ice, whizzed up in a blender...great dessert drink.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 01:23 AM

You want the best ever chocolate tasting chocolate milkshake? Use Green and Blacks Organic Chocolate chip icecream. It's so chocolatey that not even I can manage a whole tub in one sitting....

And don't think I haven't tried!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 11:24 PM

I spent last week at my favorite shore town - Ocean Grove, NJ. It is a wonderful old town that was built as a center for Revival and camp meetings in the late 1800's. The town has great Victorian houses (more per capita than any other city in the country) and an incredible building called The Great Auditorium. The town maintains it's revival roots and charm. My main love of this town is the fact that there are no touristy boardwalks and it caters to families.   It puts other shore towns to shame in my estimation.

In the center of town is a great ice cream shop called Nagles. This shop was originally a pharmacy with an ice cream fountain and it has been in operation since the 1920's.   Every year we go there and I gourge myself with chocolate malts.   I swear they make the best in the world because their ice cream is so special.

Well, the secret is out. My wife discovered that they use Welsh's Farm ice cream, which turns out to be my favorite home brand as well. As Marge Simpson would say, they add a secret ingredient - Love.

Anyway, here is a great recipe

4 scoops of Welsh's farms CHOCOLATE ice cream (you can substitute Welsh's vanilla if you aren't a choclate freak)
3 tablespoons of malt - I use Carnations. Use their chocolate malt for the most chocolate punch
3/4 cup of milk(use skim if you are watching your weight - but if you are watching your weight, why are you looking for an milkshake recipe???)
and - 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Put it in a blender and go to town. Supposedly it serves two, but I've never found out if that is true.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Maryrrf
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 11:05 PM

That's a very fattening vice you're taking up! I rarely have a milkshake because they're caloric disasters, but I love them. Milk and ice cream are the basic ingredients and you can let your imagination run wild from there. My first job was working at a soda fountain in a drugstore and we made milk shakes the old fashioned way - scooping out ice cream by hand, adding the milk and using a special mixer. I always used to come home spattered with milkshake - but boy were they good. Chocolate was my favorite - made with chocolate ice cream AND chocolate syrup.

A less fattening alternative for the weight conscious:

Get frozen fruit (either buy the frozen, unsweetened strawberries, peaches, etc. or just cut up fresh fruit and put it in a plastic bag in the freezer.). Put some in the blender, add nonfat yogurt and sugar or low cal sweetener. Blend it till the fruit is pulverized. The more fruit you put in relation to the yogurt the thicker the consistency will be. Bananas work really well. You can also do this with tofu - substitute it for the yogurt and if it's too thick you can add a little water. It isn't as good as a milkshake but it substitutes pretty well.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Amos
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:12 PM

Pint o f coffee ice cream, couple pints of milk, a bananana if you like them, and bob's your uncle and fannie's yer aunt!


A

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Billy the Bus
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 10:11 PM

Fred,

Only suggestion I have for milkshake making is:

1. Find a well-endowed lass, who has just given birth.
2. Get her to run and jump. When she stands still?
3. Instant milkshake - and a new vice

**VBG** - Sam

Subject: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,fred miller no cookie
Date: 19 Aug 03 - 09:53 PM

Taking up a new vice, looking for help. I used to do banannas vanilla ice cream and some some spice I can't remember. anything else I should try? other than the obvious cookie suggestion?

I try to take up new vices as often as I can, but I really hope to stick to it this time. Thanks, fred