BS: how you make a milkshake

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 04:57 AM

Amos, I'll give you a hint: "No soap, radio."

Aloha,
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Hrothgar
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 06:42 AM

You Americans sure talk funny.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 09:17 AM

I've watched orange julius' being made - it's pure oj, crushed ice and some of their "special powder" - which is a very fine grained white powder of some sort.

The recipes I've seen on the web (and have used); mix powdered sugar with powdered egg whites to make the 'julius' powder. It sure seems to give the drink the same 'mouth feel' and taste as the commercial ones.

I don't believe the bit about malt - malt usually makes me sick to my stomach...

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 09:26 AM

BTW - just noticed Fred Miller's comment

heck I'm a pedant? and here I thought I was just an a**hole!

but cherrystone clams are still quahogs.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Kelly
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 09:33 AM

I'm a bigger fan of the smoothie than the shake. Gimme a Strawberry Dream any day! (Papaya juice, cuppa strawberries, half a banana and ice! *purr*)

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:03 AM

MMario - sorry to hear about your aversion to malt!!   I love the stuff in all forms - from shakes to beer!   It really turns a choclate shake into something special.

Hmmm...that gives me an idea - beer, ice cream, blender - on second thought maybe not.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:21 AM

beer/ale is the only thing I can stomach that contains malt!   On *very* rare occasions malted milk balls - but then I am usually so sick the next day that I don't touch them again for five or six years...I can gag down a chocolate malt if I have to...but *shudder* GAG down is exactly it...

Guiness shakes aren't bad...

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: WFDU - Ron Olesko
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:24 AM

That is interesting. Is it an allergy or just a taste issue?   I'm curious because I have a similar issue with certain fruit. I just can't stomach eating bananas, but I love them if they are blended in a smoothie.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:34 AM

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:36 AM

Ooops. Sorry about that.

If there's malt in a Julius, they sure do cover up the taste of it.

They make them in other flavors now besides orange, but I'm a purist.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 10:46 AM

Ron - it seems to be a little of both. I've tasted soap that tastes better to me than malted milk. But I also get "hangovers" from it.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Ely
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 12:20 PM

My aunt makes juliuses--the powder is probably some sort of dehydrated milk or milk/egg combo (I know she uses milk, I forget if she uses egg or not).

We don't have Orange Julius in Houston. I sure miss them.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 12:33 PM

The soda fountain in the drug store next to where I went to high school also used to make "dusty sundaes"--a scoop of ice cream (vanilla as the default) topped with a spoonful or two of malt (cherry optional).

It was a neat soda fountain that made everything to order and allowed creativity on the part of patrons as long as they were willing to pay for it.

I've been told that Mrs. Arthur Miller (a/k/a Marilyn Monroe) used to hang out at the sode fountain a decade before I got there, but that's another story...

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Kelly
Date: 22 Aug 03 - 12:40 PM

Ely, shoot up here to Dallas. There's an Orange Julius just north of here in Lewisville.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 12:48 AM

OK, OK, so maybe I was wrong about the malt. Sosumi! [insert silly smiley face thing here]

Aloha,
Mark

PS, speaking of silly smiley face things, I recently discovered Dave Barry's Useful Internet Emoticons--which I like almost as much as a milkshake, in case someone was going to accuse me of thread creep!

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: EBarnacle1
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 09:31 AM

When I first dropped in at the Orange Julius stand on 8th Street, I was told that the company originated in California. There was an earlier stand in The City around midtown. It was a real hole in the wall store.

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 09:50 AM

Being a mere old European, I've never had the pleasure of consuming one of these, but here's a recipe I found.
1 1/4 cups orange juice
1 cup water
3 tablespoons egg white or egg substitute
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups ice

Combine all of the ingredients except ice in a blender and blend on high speed for 15-30 seconds or until the sugar is dissolved. Add the ice and blend for another 10 to 15 seconds or so, until ice is mostly crushed yet still a bit coarse. (http://www.topsecretrecipes.com)
Makes 2 16-ounce drinks.

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Aug 03 - 10:56 AM

Ya want a smoothie? Try blending strawberries, banannas, and orange juice. No ice, if you want it cold chill the ingredients. This is being a REAL purist.

(Oh, yeah, a splash of 151 proof rum, or just regular rum, can add a whole new dimension to it.)

Subject: RE: BS: how you make a milkshake
From: Maryrrf
Date: 24 Aug 03 - 09:47 AM

This thread got me thinking - I love pina coladas but almost never order them because they're really, really fattening. They're made with coconut milk which is a caloric disaster, plus lots of sugar. I froze some pineapple (I used canned because that's what I had on hand)then put some of that in the blender along with non fat yogurt and a little coconut extract. I added a few packets of Equal (sugar substitute) Well it came out delicious - very similar to a pina colada.   I experimented by making another one and adding a frozen banana to the mix and it came out even better. I didn't bother about adding alcohol because it's the creaminess, the frostiness and the flavor of the pineapple and coconut that I like, but I suppose you could add alcohol to the lo cal version.