Milkshake Bar: Shakes, malts, floats and other soda fountain classics Hardcover – 8 Jan. 2016

I have no idea. It was sent as a gift to my son.

Bought this as a gift for my mum who is going through somewhat of a 1950s-diner-retro-phase and she was thrilled with it! The recipes are great (if not perhaps a little fatty!)- peanut butter recipe has to be my fave so far. Great book whether buying for yourself or as a gift :)

Just coming into the right time of year so starting to try

Could do with some more basic recipes but is good. I brought the syrups to go with the machine to make it easier

Didn’t really live up to the details on listing

Some good idea recipes in this book.

It arrived the next day which was great. It was for a friends birthday who loves milkshakes she really like it and had some nice looking recipes in it. Just need to taste them now.

Book is good, not quite what I wanted as most of the recipes are unusual but if unusual is what you want then its a good book. Fast delivery

Super amazing book and before time delivery....

Just what I was looking for. I have an old fashioned milkshake machine, the type that soda fountains used to use.

make all the time

I LOVE cookbooks - I love them so much, I have over 600 of them, and that's after culling out the ones I don't use or care for periodically! Right now I've especially been enjoying specialty ones that are based on one particular type of food, such as cupcakes, cake pops, whoopie pies...and now, milkshakes. I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book, which I had pre-ordered. It's small - maybe about 60 pages, and I have to admit, the photography is beautiful - but as for recipes? As we say in NY, fageddaboudit!There's not much in here that you can't figure out how to make yourself, and there wasn't anything unique or imaginative that grabbed me. To be honest, as soon as I saw the recipe for egg creams, I then and there decided there was no way I had any faith in any of Ms. Miles' recipes. (I'm New York City born and raised, and lived there for almost 40 years.) First of all, she wrote, "There are no longer eggs or cream in this drink." Oh really? THERE NEVER WERE any eggs or cream in egg creams! Her recipe calls for a cup of milk, a cup of soda water, and 2 tbs. of chocolate syrup. ONE TABLESPOOON of chocolate syrup to a cup of liquid? Looking at those measurements you can tell right off that her version will not have the rich, chocolatey taste of a real egg cream! (All her recipes, BTW, make TWO servings.) Other errors in this one drink: for a real egg cream, you want to use Fox's U-Bet Syrup - the kosher kind, not the junk with HFCS. (It's available at a very reasonable price from webstaurant.com.) You do NOT use "soda water" - you use seltzer...freshly carbonated, if possible, but a newly opened bottle will do in a pinch. And half milk and half "soda water?" Does this woman have any idea of what an egg cream is? Apparently not!Here are the correct measurements and an authentic NYC recipe: 1/4 cup Fox's U-Bet syrup; 1/3 cup ice cold milk; 3/4 to 1 cup of fresh, bubbly seltzer. (Quite a difference from the mess that's offered in this book!) Pour the syrup into a tall, 16 oz. glass, then add the milk. DO NOT STIR to mix them...as Ms. Miles tells you to do. Quickly pour the seltzer over the back of a long-handled spoon, pouring and stirring vigorously at the same time until a rich foam rises to the top; serve immediately.As for the rest of the recipes...meh...nothing special, and not much that you couldn't figure out how to make for yourself; the one or two recipes that I might have tried, I wouldn't, at least not using her recipes after reading the recipe for that slop she calls an egg cream. This is one of those books that I'd have put on my bookshelves, never used, and gotten rid of in my next purge, but I decided to just send it back and not waste my money. If you want to try some creative, imaginative, absolutely delicious milkshakes, go with Bobby Flay's "Burgers, Fries, and Shakes" and "Bar" this "Milkshake" book from your library!

Not sure why the average reviews are as high as they are. Was looking for a milkshake recipe book to gift with a milkshake maker. Return is too much of a hassle, so I'm doing you the favor instead, and letting you know this probably isn't the one. Not much for recipes in here - very slim book that looks like it belongs in the children's section of the library, not an adult recipe book.