Coffee cabinet
A coffee cabinet is an ice cream-based milkshake found almost exclusively in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts, consisting of coffee ice cream, coffee syrup, and milk. The ingredients are mixed in a drink blender or milkshake blender.[1]
Among the famous Rhode Island creameries which serve them are Delekta Pharmacy in
The earliest known reference to the Coffee Cabinet was published in The Spatula in 1903:[3]
A drink that has become the most popular is "Coffee Cabinet," consisting of coffee syrup, egg, plain cream, ice cream, and shaved ice, thoroughly shaken. The coarse stream of soda is drawn and the drink is strained. This has often been called a meal in itself.
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See also
References
- ^ Peter W. Smith, New England Country Store Cookbook, (iUniverse, 2003), pg. 146
ISBN 9780595253968 [1](accessed November 26, 2008 on Google Book Search)
- ^ "newport-creamery". newport-creamery. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
- ^ Fox, Irving P. (1903). The Spatula. Spatula publishing Company.
- ] (accessed 1 December 2015 on Google Books); "Know-it-alls would have you believe that the drink's inventor kept his blender and/or coffee syrup in a cabinet, but try finding evidence of this..."
- ^ "The Rhode Island Cabinet". Art of Drink. 2019-03-07. Retrieved 2019-03-08.