Deli - Style Chocolate Egg Cream

Total Time: 5 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 1
• ice cold whole milk
• chilled plain bottled seltzer water (or a soda siphon bottle with a co2 cartridge and chilled water, if you have one)
• chocolate syrup (fox's u-bet brand is traditional, but hershey's will do in a pinch)

Recipe

• 1 put a long-handled metal spoon into a very tall drinking glass. fill the glass with about a 1/4 full of ice cold milk.
• 2 pour the seltzer water slowly into the milk, leaving about 1 inch at the top of the glass. if you've done this correctly, you should already see a nice creamy foam developing on top of the drink.
• 3 use the long-handled spoon to stir and quickly blend the chocolate syrup with the milk and seltzer, doing your best not to disturb the foam at the top of the glass. stir until the chocolate is well blended into the drink. after stirring, top the drink off with a little more seltzer, until the foam rises to the top of the glass, almost overflowing.
• 4 remove the spoon and, there, you have it! -- a delicious chocolate egg cream with a beautiful cap on top. and, if you don't get it right the first time, practice makes almost-perfect -- an almost-perfect deli-style chocolate egg cream.
• 5 p.s. don't use a straw. a foamy mustache is half the fun! enjoy!