my dad makes the best egg creams

As far as I can remember, it all started when I was little with my Dad making us chocolate sodas on the weekend or after dinner. That was back in the Quik days when extra stirring was required. In went the seltzer and up rose all the foam. Excitement! We drank them down through straws, putting our green glass mugs back on the table after every gulp to measure who had more. I might have thought of that contest... A few years later, we graduated to the Hershey's syrup, which cut down on mixing time, I'll tell you. We also made orange sodas a lot, with orange juice and seltzer, always measuring to see who had more with every drink we had (again the contest was at my urging I think). Including Schav. But back to seltzer-based drinks. The key to all these drinks: put the soda in last for the extra foam-up.

In the last five years, my Dad has concocted some new tasty egg creams, one which he made for me (the Indian Egg Cream), the other (the Dark Chocolate Egg Cream) he told me the recipe over the phone and I promptly made the next day. They are both really tasty and I must share them with you in honor of Father's Day.

The Indian Egg Cream combines skim milk and soy milk, Indian tea masala (a spicy blend you can pick up at the Indian market) and last, the seltzer! Very tasty and the spicy is nicey. The Dark Chocolate Egg Cream uses unsweetened Baker's chocolate. This is for bitter chocolate lovers, which we both are. Combine a piece of bitter chocolate with a little hot water to make it into a smooth paste, then add the skim milk and combine. Add the seltzer! Two healthy egg creams for you to enjoy! Happy Father's Day Dad! See you Sunday!

this is roughly what is in tea masala

which comes ready-to-use in powdered form