Milk Shakes and Malts

Basic Recipe

2 scoops vanilla ice cream
1 cup milk
flavoring - See List

Combine all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high speed for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, or until the mixture is smooth and thick. Serve immediately. Recipe should make pint.

Flavorings

Vanilla - 1 Tbs vanilla extract
Chocolate - 3 tablespoons chocolate syrup (Recipe below) and 1 tsp vanilla extract.
Fruit - 1/2 cup sliced fruit (cherries strawberries, pineapple, peaches, bananas, , etc.) Fruit must be completely crushed and pulpy for chunks of fruit when frozen are like rocks.
Date - 4 Tbs pitted chopped dates and 4 Tbs chilled date crystal dessert (Recipe below)
Maple - 1/4 c Maple syrup, plus ¼ tsp either Cinnamon or nutmeg
Raspberry - 1 oz Raspberry Syrup.
Alexander - 1 oz Crème de Cacoa and 1 oz brandy.
Root Beer - 1 oz Root Beer extract.
Hoboken - Chocolate Ice Cream with 1/2 cup pineapple syrup.
Boston - 1 tsp each, ginger and vanilla extract.
Catawba - 1 oz. grape syrup or 2 oz. grape juice.
Hurricane - 1 tsp Butter, 1 oz. Maple Syrup and 1 oz. Apple Juice. (I dunno. Add an oz. of vodka and batten down the hatches)!

Variations

Add 2 Tbs Malt powder to shake to make a Malted Milk. Malt is rich in Iron.
Thick shakes depend on the heaviness of the ice cream and the ratio of ice cream to milk. Experiment with your favorite brand and adjust ratio until you like it. "Thick" malts and shakes originated when teenage soda jerks made them for friends, giving them a discount. The basic recipe usually is thin, the way a malt and shake is supposed to be.
Use ice cream the same flavor as the flavoring to be added; chocolate ice cream with chocolate flavoring.
Use ice cream to complement flavor as the flavoring to be added; coffee ice cream with chocolate or Alexander flavoring, peppermint ice cream with chocolate flavoring.
Fruit - 1/2 cup sliced fruit (cherries strawberries, pineapple, peaches, bananas, , etc.) Fruit must be completely crushed and pulpy for chunks of fruit when frozen are like rocks.
Mix ice cream flavors such as vanilla, chocolate and strawberry with banana flavoring to become the "Banana Split Shake."
Raspberry Syrup, banana and cherry is called for some reason, "The Washington Monument."
Add raw egg to shake, almost a perfect food although now raw eggs are risky.

Chocolate Syrup

1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup water
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa (preferably Dutch process)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Stir sugar and water in heavy medium saucepan over medium-low heat until sugar dissolves. Increase heat and bring to boil. Place cocoa in small bowl. Gradually whisk in sugar syrup. Return mixture to same saucepan. Boil 1 minute, whisking constantly. Pour into bowl. Whisk in vanilla and cool completely. Cover and chill until cold, at least 1 hour. (Syrup can be made 1 week ahead. Keep refrigerated.)

Date Shake

Use basic ingredients or ice cream and milk, then follow remaining recipe.

1 Cup Dates (Seedless)
3 tbsp Powdered Sugar

Preheat and then cool the milk, Soak the dates for 15 minutes.
Combine Milk and Dates with Powdered Sugar in a blender and blend on high speed until blended well. Add Vanilla Ice Cream to blender and blend 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, or until the mixture is smooth and thick. Serve immediately. Recipe should make a pint.
NOTE: You can use following product, basically powdered dates, instead of real dates.

Date Crystal Dessert
- 1/2 cup Milk
- 1 cup date crystals*
  
  Mix date crystals into milk, set in cool place for at least 2 hours then refrigerate.
  *Available from:
Sundaes and Sauces
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