![]() ![]() ![]() It was handed down from one soda jerk to the next. The technique of making egg creams was not written in some book. So you are not getting this insight from some novice. I must have made a thousand egg creams, along with chocolate sodas, vanilla sodas, cherry cokes, ice cream sodas, ice cream sundaes, malts and shakes. When I was in high school I worked at one of those candy stores in Brooklyn that had fountain service, BonBons on 77 Street and New Utrecht Avenue. No, egg creams have to be made at a soda fountain, or at home with the proper ingredients. Absolutely the worst thing I ever tasted. Some companies have tried to bottle it and sell it around the country. They consist of chocolate or vanilla syrup, whole milk and seltzer water…that’s it. Egg creams do not have eggs in them or cream. Legend has it, egg creams were invented by a Brooklyn candy store owner in the late 19th Century. I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s when egg creams were made and served in a candy store or a shop with fountain service. New Yorkers, and especially Brooklynites, do not take their egg creams lightly, nor for granted. ![]()
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