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The History of Milkshakes

Ice cream is more affluent than milkshakes. There were more people who could make it in the kitchen in the home in the time Nancy Johnson invented the hand-cranking freezer that made Ice cream around 1846. She made use of a wooden bucket of salt and ice in the tub, and a paddle to make the frozen ice.

Do you want in knowing the background of milkshakes?

In the past, milkshakes were created as a kind of eggnog-based drink that was alcoholic, made with whisky eggs, whisky and milk. It was also not a child-friendly or family-friendly drink!

The current version of the milkshake is the well-known mouth-watering drink that was created when alcohol was replaced by syrup, ice-cream , and milk blended. It was safe for kids to drink. In the year 1897, William Horlick in Wisconsin created the health drink for children called malted drinks and named it Horlicks which was made up of evaporated malted barley, milk along with wheat. The alteration was achieved with the addition of chocolate syrup as the added flavor.

But they were not easy to make. When 1911 came around, Hamilton Beach invented a drink mixer to make milkshakes more easy to make.

However, it was not simple for a home-cooked milkshake to be made. In fact, it wasn’t Hamilton Beach who developed an drink mixer in 1911 in order to make the preparation of making milkshakes easier. The year 1922 was when Polish native Stephen Poplawski invented an automated malt milk mixer that is the modern blender that we are using to this day.

The same time, during the hot summer daysat at a Chicago drugstore was the Walgreens employees Ivar “Pop” Coulson kicked off his revolution by adding vanilla ice cream into regular malted milk drinks.

In the 1930s, when the Freon cooler was introduced the possibility of multiple shakes being made in one go, using soft-serve frozen ice creams. Milkshakes were the most popular beverage and was offered in US in soda fountains, drug stores as well as breakfast bars, drive-through roadshows, as well as any food stands. Milkshakes were sold under various names, and with a variety of flavors. They were sold in tall glasses and straws for slurping, and decorated with a strawberry and umbrella hanging from the glass. Then , bendable straws were invented to drink the shakes that were not drinkable because of their thickness. Then Joseph Friedman found that his daughter was having trouble drinking the milkshake with an uncurved straw he created the straw bent.

Friedman modified her straw using a screw then wrapping the floss around the thread of the screw. It made the straw bend towards the top of the glass. Judith discovered it was easier for her to sip her milkshake. Friedman got the patent for the bent straw , also known as The Flexible Drinking straw, on the 28th September 1937.

They were also referred to with a plethora of meanings, including concrete, the drink that was very thick and glass that could used to help turn upside down without spilling even a drop. Some other crazy drinks included frappes, drinks with frosting, cabinets, velvets, and more. There are a variety of shakes on the market today that are topped with frostings, whipped cream or ice creams as well as other sweets.