Choose-a-Flavor Float
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 29. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup desired ice cream or sherbet
- 2/3 to 3/4 cup desired carbonated beverage, chilled
Instructions
- Add half of the ice cream to a chilled 12-ounce glass. Add enough carbonated beverage to half-fill the glass; stir gently to mix. Add remaining ice cream. Fill the glass with remaining carbonated beverage.
- Fruit Juice Float: Prepare as above, except substitute orange, apple, or pineapple juice for the carbonated beverage.
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Ice Cream Soda Float - Marrocco's 2025-05-09.jpg" by Andy Li; license: CC0 (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ice_Cream_Soda_Float_-_Marrocco%27s_2025-05-09.jpg. Representative photo; cropped/resized.
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