

Brown's (mainly in the New York City area, but also kosher delicatessens across the country)

Before drinking, the cream soda-water was mixed with water and an acid such as tartaric acid or citric acid. Howell's cream soda-water was made with sodium bicarbonate, water, sugar, egg whites, wheat flour, and "any of the usual flavoring materials-such as oil of lemon, extracts of vanilla, pine-apple, to suit the taste". Howell, of Vienna, New Jersey, was granted a patent for "cream soda-water" on June 27, 1865. It was suggested as a temperance drink preferable to those of "Uncle Bacchus" and in compliance with the recently introduced Maine law. Sheldon and published in Michigan Farmer in 1852 called for water, cream of tartar ( Potassium bitartrate), Epsom salts, sugar, egg, and milk, to be mixed, then heated, and mixed when cool with water and a quarter teaspoonful of baking soda ( sodium bicarbonate) to make an effervescent drink.
