CHAPTER 1
Beverages
Regal Order Root Beer Ice Cream Fluff
Here's to good fellowship.
2 cups root beer 2 cups vanilla ice cream
Pour ice cold, root beer into a large bowl set in a pan of crushed ice. Add ice cream and beat with a beater until smooth and fluffy. Serve immediately.
Makes 4 servings.
Alice Schwenke — Houston, Texas
Floyd's Punch in the Mouth
Not in the nose this time.
2 quarts water
2 cups sugar
Juice of 2 lemons
1 large can pineapple juice
2 packages Kool-Aid, any flavor
1 large bottle ginger ale
Mix all ingredients, except ginger ale, and chill. Add chilled ginger ale when ready to serve.
Makes 40 punch cups.
Judy B. Coleman — Asheboro, North Carolina
Barney's about to float out of the drugstore:
BARNEY: Another root beer float.
ELLIE: Barney, don't you think you've had enough?
BARNEY: Ellie, you let me worry about that.
ELLIE: But Barney, four inside of fifteen minutes! Putting all that ice cream and soda in your stomach —
BARNEY: Ellie, if you won't sell them to me, I'll just buy it somewheres else.
Wally's Bottle of Pop Float
A favorite of Opie's cool aunt.
Here's an easy recipe that's a real hit with my kids. After a fresh snowfall, scoop up a big glass of fresh snow. Pour in about a half glass of Coca-Cola (cream soda's good also). Stir and eat with a spoon. If you're feeling really exotic, give it a squirt of chocolate syrup.
Serves 1.
Bob Scheib, Wally's Service — Bradford, Ohio
Fill 'er up at Wally's:
FLOYD: You got the best pop in town.
WALLY: Yeah.
FLOYD: You've got more variety than they've got at the drugstore. Oh, they've got cherry and orange. You've got just about ever ... Say, I noticed a new one in there for Huckleberry Smash. I would've tried it, but I already had the cap off of this Nectarine Crush.
WALLY: Another I've got you oughta try — high octane ethyl.
FLOYD: Oh, that's a new one, that high octane ethyl?
Elinor's Eggnog
A Mayberry holiday tradition.
6 eggs
1 cup milk
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon nutmeg
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup heavy whipping cream
Rum or brandy, optional
Separate eggs. Put whites in a bowl and refrigerate. In a glass bowl, beat egg yolks; then add milk, sugar, nutmeg, and salt. Mix well and microwave on high power for 3 minutes, stirring well after each minute. Chill mixture for several hours. Beat egg whites until fluffy and then gently stir them into chilled egg-milk mixture. Stir in vanilla. Whip cream until thick; then add to the rest. (When Barney's not looking, Otis likes to add a little rum or brandy.) Serve very cold. If using a punch bowl, chill bowl in freezer beforehand.
Makes 1 quart.
Cindee and Paul Mulik — Joplin, Missouri
It's beginning to taste a lot like Christmas:
ANDY: Oh, looky at the eggnog!
ELLI