Sweet Milk Lassies

While reading These Is My Words, by Nancy E. Turner, I came across the term sweet milk lassi. When I am, reading I have my laptop or my i Pad close by so I can look up words that I am not familiar with. I like to use The Free Dictionary by Farlex, not only does this dictionary give you the meaning, but if I am using my laptop, the program will pronounce the word for me. I also do a google search for images of items that I am reading about. For example, I will type in saguaro cactus into the google search box click search and in the upper left corner click on images. Now I can see what this cactus looks like.

Type in the item that you want to search for.

Click on images in the upper left corner and 

you will see pictures of your searched item.

I was not familiar what a lassie was, specifically a milk lassi from the early 1900's. Google to the rescue. I was able to find out that there are many versions of this drink from different cultures. I wanted a recipe that would have been used during the early 1900's by the pioneers. 

I found that a sweet milk lassie is cold or warm milk with some sort of sweetener that is mixed or shaken with clotted cream on top. Here, is a recipe that I thought perhaps would be used during that period of time.

Sweet Milk Lassi

Ingredients: 
500 ml. - just a little over 2 cups very chilled pasteurised whole milk
2 tbsp. sugar
1/4 tsp. cardamom powder
2 drops vanilla essence

I am feeling a little under the weather but plan on making one of these sweet milk lassi for myself as soon as I am up and about.