Malted milk

Malted milk is malted barley, wheat flour, and whole milk, evaporated into a powder.

Malted milk was first marketed as Aged Milk by James and William Horlick, brothers from Gloucestershire, who founded Horlicks in Chicago in 1873. William Horlick received United States patent 278,967 for it ten years later. The drink was originally manufactured as an artificial infant food because of its taste. It became better known in the USA as the basis for malted milkshakes, which were popularized in 1922 by a soda jerk at a Walgreens drug store in Chicago. Today, malted milk is found in a variety of foods, including a chocolate candy confection known as malted milk balls, and malted waffles and pancakes.

Malted milk powder was distributed in the 1950s by Carnation. Years later Carnation was purchased by Nestle, the chocolate manufacturer. The powder is still distributed and manufactured today.