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| Scoops of a high quality ice cream, topped with a great root beer, preferably bottled and ideally Barq's, add a tall spoon and straw and you have a fantastic, ice cold root beer float. |
Perfect Root Beer Float
With ice cream in the house and summer just around the corner, seemed to me a root beer float was just waiting to happen!Just sippin' on this reminded me of Amy, my best friend in junior high school, and visiting her Mama at Calvert-Carraway's drug store, where she worked in the afternoons. We'd sit and sometimes spin when we could get away with it, on top of the red vinyl topped metal barstools at the soda fountain counter and get treated to an ice cold root beer float - or sometimes a cherry coke - while we soaked in that ice cold air conditioning on one of these swelterin' hot summer days we have down here in the Deep South. I clearly remember when businesses used to proudly display signs in their front windows that shouted "Ice Cold Air!"
And if there weren't too many patrons eating at the counter and we didn't annoy Amy's Mama too much, sometimes we'd get to snack on some yummy onion rings too! Boy, those were the days. Life was simple, no worries, and nothin' to do but just be.
Ideally, in my corner of the world, a proper root beer float would be made with Barq's root beer, from the bottle. Despite what a lot of folks think, or what Wiki says, Barq's root beer as we know it, was first bottled right here on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and in fact, the Barq family still live here. If I remember correctly, I believe that the Barq family retained the secret formula when they sold the bottling rights to Coca-Cola, and that formula is still made here and sent out to bottlers across the country to add into the product.
We still have Barq's in the bottle available around here at stores and in most restaurants, and that's what we love the best. In fact, it is near about a requirement to have a bottled Barq's root beer when ya get a good, drippy roast beef po-boy ... most likely dressed and pressed, if you're from around here. Mmmm mmmmm, that's soundin' so dang good, I just might have to run out and get one of those right now!
Anyway, I gotta say - there is a world of difference between Barq's in a bottle and Barq's in the can that is marketed all over the country (or is it the world) these days, but even so, I realize that not everybody has access to Barq's in a bottle ... or maybe you don't even like Barq's - so, substitute what ya got!
But just hurry up and make you one of these beverages, close your eyes and think back to childhood and less complicated times, if only for a few moments. Here's how to make one.
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Recipe: The Perfect Root Beer Float
©From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
Prep time: 5 min | Yield: 1 servings
Ingredients
Instructions
- 3 to 4 scoops of a high quality vanilla ice cream (like Blue Bell or Breyer's)
- 1 bottle of root beer, preferably Barq's
- 1 tall glass
- 1 straw
- 1 long iced tea type of spoon
Fill your glass half the way with vanilla ice cream. Slowly pour Barq's root beer over the top of the ice cream until the foam rises to the top, reserving just a bit of the root beer. Give it a good stir and then pour the rest of the root beer on top to bring the head back up. Stick in a straw, stick in a spoon, so you can dig out some of that ice cream, and slurp it up!
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