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