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Typically Horlick’s malted milk powder was used, but historically malt syrup was the go-to ingredient. Malted Milk powder solved the viscosity problem by drying the malt and mixing it with other water-soluble ingredients, like powdered milk and lots of sugar. Over the next few years, they continuously developed the formula eventually having three Horlick’s products (Malted Milk, Horlick’s Food and Horlick’s Diastoid) If you go to your local mega-mart you might not find Horlick’s malted milk powder; it seems it’s just not as popular as it once was.

The flavour of vanilla is universally loved, especially when combined with ice cream. The flavour is so ubiquitous that the term “plain vanilla”—meaning boring—became a thing, but don’t let that dissuade you from shaking up a vanilla milkshake because when done properly there are few flavours that can compare

What if I told you that there was a tiki style drinking establishment before tiki bars even existed? What if I told you it existed in 1917, 16 years before Don Beach opened Don the Beachcombers. In this case it wasn’t a bar but a soda fountain doing “Hawaiian Week” in March 1917

Rhode Island seems to be a sleepy little state nestled amongst giants like New York and Massachusetts. One of the state’s quirks is the drink called the cabinet which to the rest of North America is called a milkshake or ice cream shake