The last time I had an egg cream was TODAY at the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum!!! I had a vanilla and a strawberry one and they were delicious. Now I want to try all the other flavors that exist.
Lived on Coffee Street in Red Hook, early 1980's, the 'Seltzer Man' would come down our cobblestone street and sell us wooden cases of the blue bottles with the spray spouts with Fox's U-Bet Chocolate Syrup. Simply THE BEST! I don't think I've had an eggcream that delicious ever again.
Interesting learning about the history and making of seltzer water!
My parents owned a candy store on Clinton Street in the Lower Eastside in the late 20s and early 30s. My mother told me that when people wanted a glass of seltzer, they would ask for a two-cent plain.
Some customers would ask for a very sweet egg cream and drink about half and then say it was too sweet and request more seltzer to be added. This gave them an additional half of a glass for the price of one egg cream.
Growing up in the 40s and living in a Brooklyn apartment on the first floor, then referred to as the floor above the ground floor, my brother and I would go out on our fire escape and yell "hot scramble" and throw down comic books we no longer wanted. Other kids would go to where the comic books were thrown and we would squirt them with seltzer bottles.
I was told the secret of making a good egg cream was to use very cold milk.
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