Neither egg nor creamSourced
An egg cream’s name does not list its ingredients
An egg cream combines milk, carbonated water and flavoured syrup. Despite its name, it contains neither eggs nor cream. Several explanations of the name exist, without a settled origin. Reading the name as an ingredient list leads elsewhere.
The name cannot reconstruct the recipe.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05