Pepper Cream

From the time before I could actually cook, I've been mixing and trying.  My experimental nature got worse when I moved to college.  I was exposed to more variety of food than what I grew up with.  I had to learn how to make a variety of foods.  My desire (or lack of money) prevented me from just buying box meals most of the time, so I looked in recipe books and called relatives for recipes and advice.  Once I got access to the internet, I learned new techniques.  Don't get me wrong, I am far from a great cook and it's not even a hobby/interest that I pursue.

I have created several recipes/how-to's that I'm going to share in time so family (or anyone else) can recreate my foods when I'm not around.

The first recipe is my recipe for Pepper Cream.  It's like an old fashioned egg cream soda but with Dr. Pepper instead of soda water (because Dr. Pepper is awesome).

Ingredients:
1/4 cup milk
1-2 Tbsp. chocolate syrup
1 12oz. can Dr. Pepper
Fancy glass and matching straw
(All measurements are usually just eyeballed.  Measured them out for this recipe.)

  Take a glass and put chocolate syrup in bottom. Pour in milk.

Fill with Dr. Pepper and stir.  Keep in mind, this concoction will foam up.  I like the foam.  If you don't, mix the syrup and milk first then pour into the Dr. Pepper.

Tips:  Tilt glass when pouring the milk or Dr. Pepper in to minimize mixing with prior ingredients.  You could also use a spoon to pour onto.  They used to make long bent spoons for this purpose.  I'm sure they still do, I just haven't taken enough interest in them to research where to get one.

Colder the milk the better.  Near freezing milk will have ice crystals in it (developing into ice cream) and it does something special to the foam.

Hope you enjoy!