Although the weather has been cooling, I have still had a taste for ice cream. Lately, I’ve been having ice cream sodas. I remember when I was a girl, my mother bought me my first ice cream soda, made with soda water, syrup, and ice cream, at a local old-fashioned ice cream parlour. It was coffee flavored and delicious.
Since then, floats and sodas have been one of my favorite things to do with ice cream. The soda brings a lightness to the drink that makes it easier to drink than a heavy milkshake, and doesn’t hold the problem of ice cream against one’s teeth that arises when one eats an ice cream cone or a bowl of ice cream. Plus the ice cream just lasts so much longer. I’m seriously considering buying a soda siphon to be able to make ice cream sodas whenever I want.
To make a soda, you can simply add a scoop of ice cream to a flavored soda, as in a root beer float, but I like to mix flavored syrup into plain soda water and add a scoop of ice cream at the end. The stainless steel straw has the double benefit of serving as a stirring rod. I add chocolate syrup to the bottom of the glass, as though I were making a chocolate milk, and then add a splash of soda water to get the syrup thinned out a bit. I mix in the soda little by little so it doesn’t froth out of the glass, leaving about two inches of headroom so I don’t make a mess when I drop in the scoop of ice cream. Topping with whipped cream is optional, but pretty.
Giant yum!!! I’ve been absolutely adoring the lovely recipes that you’ve been sharing with us lately. Floats are such a timeless classic. My mom would make them for us sometimes when I was little and we’d play 1950s style car hop together, complete with having us “drive up” on our bikes to a window through which she had us our “order”. It was cute as all get out! 🙂
Big hugs & happy second half of October wishes,
♥ Jessica
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What a cute thing to do with children! My mother would have afternoon tea parties with us, complete with real tea, scones, and a miniature tea set. Perhaps that’s where I get my love of tea…
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