Dish · american

Milkshake

Milk, sugar, and vanilla or another flavoring blended until thick and frothy, sometimes with ice cream added for extra body.

Where it comes from

Early milkshakes were an adult drink mixed with whiskey. It turned into the sweet drink familiar today once malt shops and soda fountains added ice cream and electric mixers in the early twentieth century.

What cooks argue about

The variable that changes the result most is the ice cream to milk ratio: more milk makes a thin, sippable shake, more ice cream makes one thick enough to eat with a spoon.

Nobody has published a milkshake recipe yet. The page stays out of search until one exists, which is the rule for every thin page here.