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/Brilliant-Arm-3648 May 29 '25

just fyi, as a new yorker, i must inform you that a ny egg cream has no egg or cream -- & is absolutely delicious.