Ovaltine or Ovomaltine?

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May 16th 2006, 10:18 pm

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Martin

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Re: Horlick's, was Re: Ovaltine or Ovomaltine?

On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:49:40 -0400, "James Silverton"
<not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote:

    > I first came across
    >Horlick's tablets when I was in primary school in England. In
    >those days, they were an allowed alternative to the 1/3 pint of
    >milk that children had to drink. I tried a Horlick's tablet
    >just once and had the difficult task of spitting out the
    >disgusting thing under the eye of my teacher

I hated drinking Horlicks but loved Horlick's tablets.
I don't recall Horlick's tablets being offered an alternative to milk.

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May 16th 2006, 11:04 pm

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Re: Horlick's, was Re: Ovaltine or Ovomaltine?

James Silverton wrote:
    >
    > randee wrote on Tue, 16 May 2006 14:52:51 -0600:
    >
    > r> JohnT wrote:
    > ??>>
    > ??>>> Can you now please proceed to the history of Horlicks and
    > ??>>> Bournvita?
    > ??>>
    > ??>> HTH:
    > ??>>
    > ??>> Some malted barley, pinches of wheat flour with a dash of
    > ??>>
    > ??>> evaporated milk. T h a t's the recipe for success when it
    > ??>> comes to Ho r l i c k s.
    > ??>>
    > ??>> James Horlick was a chemist who worked for a company which
    > ??>> produced
    > ??>>
    > ??>> dried infant food. He became ambitious after
    > ??>>
    > ??>> inventing some recipes of his own. So along with his
    > ??>> brother William, they formed J and W
    > ??>>
    > ??>> Horlick of Chicago. Their baby food was a huge success. In
    > ??>> the 1870s, babies often got sick as fresh
    > ??>>
    > ??>> milk went bad very quickly. It was this recipe, invented
    > ??>> by James and Wi l l i a m that saved the day. From then
    > ??>> on, their
    > ??>>
    > ??>> business grew rapidly. It was in 1906 that James returned
    > ??>> to Britain and opened the Ho r l i c k s
    > ??>>
    > ??>> Malted Milk Company. Later, their sons sold the brand to
    > ??>> Sm i t h K l i n e
    > ??>>
    > ??>> Beecham, now known as Gl a xo Sm i t h K l i n e, for �20
    > ??>> million.
    > ??>>
    > ??>> JohnT
    >
    > r> In the US, Horlick's is popular for making malted milk
    > r> shakes - vanilla ice cream, milk, chocolate sauce, and a
    > r> couple spoonfuls of Horlick's all mixed up in a blender or
    > r> an actual milk shake machine. These are also known in the
    > r> far northeastern US as frappe's. Question is - are these
    > r> seen in Europe at all? I don't recall seeing anything like
    > r> that in the Gelateria's in Italy, but then again I did not
    > r> ask if they made them.
    >
    > I can't say that I've ever come across Horlick's in the US.
    > Their use in milk shakes is an addition to my knowledge :-) but
    > I guess I'm aware that teens used to drink something called
    > malted milk and I wonder if they still do! I first came across
    > Horlick's tablets when I was in primary school in England. In
    > those days, they were an allowed alternative to the 1/3 pint of
    > milk that children had to drink. I tried a Horlick's tablet
    > just once and had the difficult task of spitting out the
    > disgusting thing under the eye of my teacher
    >
    > James Silverton
    > Potomac, Maryland.

I've only seen it in powder form. AFAIR it used to be found near the
Ovaltine in the grocery stores, but I think the last jar of genuine
Horlick's I bought came from a Walgreen's drug store. Kraft and
Carnation (Nestle) also offered a similar product (again, in powdered
form). In fact, seems to me I only saw the Carnation version last time
I went by that area in the grocery store.

The ice cream counters in drug stores and dime stores used to have a
large container marked Horlick's, which had a lever for dispensing the
product to turn a milk shake into a malted milk shake (or 'malt' as they
were known). Actually you had your choice of flavors, not just
chocolate.

Although we went into several gelato places in Italy during our visits
there, I do not recall seeing a milk shake mixer in any of them.

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May 16th 2006, 11:06 pm

#48

Randee

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Re: Horlick's, was Re: Ovaltine or Ovomaltine?

Martin wrote:
    >
    > On Tue, 16 May 2006 17:49:40 -0400, "James Silverton"
    > <not.jim.silverton.at.comcast.net> wrote:
    >
    > > I first came across
    > >Horlick's tablets when I was in primary school in England. In
    > >those days, they were an allowed alternative to the 1/3 pint of
    > >milk that children had to drink. I tried a Horlick's tablet
    > >just once and had the difficult task of spitting out the
    > >disgusting thing under the eye of my teacher
    >
    > I hated drinking Horlicks but loved Horlick's tablets.
    > I don't recall Horlick's tablets being offered an alternative to milk.
    >
    > Milk Monitor (retd.)
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    >
    > Martin

Was not the Horlick's mixed with ice cream, milk, and syrup?
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Wayne Flowers
Randee Greenwald
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May 17th 2006, 7:32 am