It’s hot out, so let’s get down to basics: a good old-fashioned milkshake. Why eat dinner when you can drink a shake? This is a serious milkshake, too; it isn’t messing around. It doesn’t involve anything fancy or difficult — nothing “gourmet.” This tastes like pure strawberry; not too sweet, but not too milky either. Creamy, thick, pale pink, just strawberry-strawberry-strawberry — all as it should be. Here’s how to make your own. Don’t you want a sip? I adore a good strawberry milkshake, but I almost never drink them. They tend to be extremely disappointing. Fast-food milkshakes are fake-flavoured, dyed pink, worse than bad. No, no, no. And yet homemade shakes often let me down as well.
In ill-conceived attempts to make them “healthier” people water them down with milk, or up the quotient of strawberries until they are just sharp and icy. Now, smoothies are well and good, but when I want a milkshake, it needs to be a milkshake, OK? It’s an occasional indulgence, and therefore it needs to indulge. I feel like I finally figured it out, my perfect strawberry shake. It’s not groundbreaking; there are no gastronomic secrets here. But it delivers the goods. This is no fake-flavoured strawberry, but it doesn’t have icy chunks of strawberry in it either. It is just totally all strawberry, all the way.
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Ingredients:
1/2 pound fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced, plus whole strawberries, for garnish
2 heaping tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup milk
Method of Strawberry Milkshake:
In a mixing bowl combine the sliced strawberries, sugar and vanilla extract and stir to combine well. Set aside and allow to macerate for at least 20 minutes and up to 1 hour.
In a large mixer, place the strawberries, ice cream, and milk. Blend until smooth. Pour into ice cream parlor glasses and garnish the rim of each glass with whole strawberries. Serve immediately.