malted milks

Noun

malted milk (countable and uncountable, plural malted milks)

1. A powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
   • The diet was also changed to malted milk — from one-half to one ounce given at a feeding. The careful diet, stomach-washing with doses of one grain of cerium oxalate in one-half drachm of chalk mixture, given hourly, were ineffectual.1892, E. B. Treat, Archives of Pediatrics, volume 9, page 88
2. (UK) A hot beverage made from a mixture of malted barley, flour, and milk.
3. (Australia, US) A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavour.
   • More dispensers fail with malted milk than with any one drink that I know about. There seems to be less knowledge of what a good malted milk should taste like than there is concerning any other drink.1918, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, volume 24, page 146

   Synonyms:

   malted