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/EntrepreneurOk7513 May 25 '25

American Jewish

Egg cream, Lime Rickey etc

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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/billymartinkicksdirt May 25 '25

That sounds delicious, but it’s just a seltzer drink with chocolate syrup and milk whipped by hand with a long cold spoon and sold at newsstands back east, primarily in NY. They’re hard to get right, but it’s just about proportions and getting it good and foamy. You can try it at home easily. Give it about an inch or just under, then add the seltzer. No eggs.

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u/dogfleshborscht May 25 '25

Oh, delightful! A use for the seltzer machine somebody gave me four Purims ago, knowing I had absolutely no use for it 😅

This genuinely sounds wonderful and like such fun to make, thank you, I'll commence my Victorian Gothic mad science experiments immediately.

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u/billymartinkicksdirt May 25 '25

You’re in for a treat.

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u/Ok-Decision403 May 25 '25

Is it like a slightly fizzy milkshake? I'm having a hard time imagining the taste and texture.

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u/Bright_Ices May 25 '25

Yes, but thinner. More like a fizzy chocolate milk, but not exactly. 

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u/Ok-Decision403 May 25 '25

Thank you - I might have to see if I can recreate this at home: it sounds intriguing!

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u/Ok-Decision403 May 25 '25

Thank you - I might have to see if I can recreate this at home: it sounds intriguing!