What's the difference between a malt and a shake?!
What's the difference between a malt and a shake?
Answers:
A malt is a shake with malted milk added.
A malt has malt powder added to it.
Malted milk is malted barley, wheat flour, and whole milk, evaporated into a powder.
Malt powder comes in two forms: diastatic and non-diastatic.
Diastatic malt contains enzymes that break down starch into sugar; this is the form bakers add to bread dough to help the yeast rise and create a good crust.
Non-diastatic malt has no active enzymes and is used primarily for flavor, mostly in beverages. It sometimes contains sugar, coloring agents, and other additives.
[edit] History
Malted milk was first marketed as Aged Milk by James and William Horlick, brothers from Gloucestershire, who founded Horlicks in Chicago in 1873. William Horlick received United States patent 278,967 for it ten years later. The drink was originally manufactured as an artificial infant food because of its taste. It became better known in the USA as the basis for malted milkshakes, which were invented in 1922 by a soda jerk at a Walgreens drug store in Chicago. Today, malted milk is found in a variety of foods, including a chocolate candy confection known as malted milk balls, and malted waffles and pancakes.
Malted milk powder was distributed in the 1950s by Carnation. Years later Carnation was purchased by Nestle, the chocolate manufacturer. The powder is still distributed and manufactured today.
A milkshake is a sweet, cold beverage which is made from milk, ice cream, and sweet flavourings such as fruit syrup or chocolate sauce (in Canada and most regions of the United States, and the United Kingdom. They are also called thick milkshakes in the United Kingdom, a frappe (pronounced "frap") in parts of New England and Canada, and a cabinet in Rhode Island [1]. In some parts of the UK and in New England, milkshakes are made without ice cream. The most common flavours of milkshake are vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry. Milkshakes are usually served in a tall glass with a straw, and in many restaurants, whipped cream is added as a topping.
A milkshake is usually prepared in a blender which mixes and aerates the ingredients. Full-service restaurants, soda fountains, and diners usually prepare and mix the shake "by hand" within a special stainless steel cup, often called a malt cup or mixing can. Fast food outlets use machines where milk and mix are frozen and mixed together inside a container within the machine. Throughout the United States, especially in fast food and casual dining restaurants, a milkshake may be referred to as a shake.
Malts taste better than shakes....thats the difference....kidding malts have malt powder in it you can buy it anywhere.