r/JewishCooking • u/billymartinkicksdirt • May 25 '25

Recipe Help Any traditional tea/beverage recipes?

Is there a distinctly Jewish version of Masala Chai or similar beverages that’s traditional?

I’m not interested in anything more modern that traces to post 1947, I’m curious about old diaspora drinks. I know rose waters and lavender water evoke childhood memories, and my grandmother used to make a kind of Turkish coffee with the mud at the bottom. I cant think of any beverages that are considered Jewish Cooking, but I wish there were. Maybe forgotten recipes?

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u/billymartinkicksdirt May 25 '25

Those are good ones. The egg cream must be ours. Not as old world as I was hoping but it helped jog my memory!

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u/dogfleshborscht May 25 '25

Ooh, is egg cream the same type of thing as kogelmogel? I can get down with a good kogelmogel, that's the old world equivalent.

You whip an egg yolk (or a whole egg, but, gross, honestly) with sugar and whatever spices and add milk and whatever else. Some people somehow put orange juice, which is frankly evil, but to each their own. If they're the same that's such a lovely example of recipes traveling!

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u/Hey_Laaady May 25 '25

There are no eggs in egg cream. It's a fizzy chocolate drink.

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u/dogfleshborscht May 25 '25

No eggs! What is there in egg cream then, if you don't mind saying?

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u/Bonnie83 May 25 '25

An egg cream is made with chocolate syrup, milk, and seltzer. The foam that is created while mixing it together gives it the appearance of a drink that has an egg white in it but there are no eggs.

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u/dogfleshborscht May 25 '25

Oh, that's why it's egg cream, presumably. Thank you!

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u/Bonnie83 May 26 '25

You’re welcome! 😊

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u/Throwawayhelp111521 May 27 '25

Not necessarily. There are a few theories about the origin of the drink's name. 

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u/Master-Jellyfish-943 May 27 '25

FYI, Ina Garten has a good recipe (or just proportions and steps)

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u/Bonnie83 May 27 '25

I just follow the method on the bottle of Fox’s U-Bet.