Chief Longwind Of The North
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Almost from scratch Soda Pop:
While S[prout and her mini-Sprouts, munchkin 1, and munchkin 2 were up, I needed to teach them new skills, and let them see how some of the products they occasionally use are made. So having worked in a soda-pop factory for a year before I went in the Navy, I used that knowledge to make some home-made pop. Here's what I did, and it turned out amazing.
Two parts to pop, syrup, carbonated water.
Syrup ingredients:
2 cups sweet-black, seedless grapes.
1/4 cup stevia
2 tbs. sugar
Carbonated water:
2 16 oz. bottles sparkling water
Remove the grapes from their bunches, taking care to remove all of the stems. Blend on high for about 30 seconds. Pour the pulverized grapes into a fine-mesh sieve and drain into a metal bowl. Use a spoon to press the grape must against the mesh to speed the process.
Use the must if you know how to flavor other things, or discard. Pout the juice (should be 1 1/2 cups) back into the blender and add the stevia and sugar. Blend for twenty seconds to disolve the sweetener into the juice. Pour through a funnel into a 2 liter bottle. Slowly, very slowly, add the sparkling water. Watch for it to start foaming rapidly. If it does, quickly screw on the cap to contain the bubbles and not make a mess. Place in the fridge for ten minutes or so to dissolve teh syrup, co2, and sparkling water together. When the bubbles are gone, slowly add the remaining sparking water to the top. Ca[p and shake. Put in the fridge to get cold.
This home made soda tasted just like eating the fresh grapes, but with bubbles. It was so wonderfully flavored, and thirst quenching.
You could use fresh blueberries, or raspberries, or strawberries, or oranges, kiwi, mango, pineapple, apple, whatever flavor you desire. I'm thinking grapefruit would be exceptional. Oh, and don't forget some good apples.
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
While S[prout and her mini-Sprouts, munchkin 1, and munchkin 2 were up, I needed to teach them new skills, and let them see how some of the products they occasionally use are made. So having worked in a soda-pop factory for a year before I went in the Navy, I used that knowledge to make some home-made pop. Here's what I did, and it turned out amazing.
Two parts to pop, syrup, carbonated water.
Syrup ingredients:
2 cups sweet-black, seedless grapes.
1/4 cup stevia
2 tbs. sugar
Carbonated water:
2 16 oz. bottles sparkling water
Remove the grapes from their bunches, taking care to remove all of the stems. Blend on high for about 30 seconds. Pour the pulverized grapes into a fine-mesh sieve and drain into a metal bowl. Use a spoon to press the grape must against the mesh to speed the process.
Use the must if you know how to flavor other things, or discard. Pout the juice (should be 1 1/2 cups) back into the blender and add the stevia and sugar. Blend for twenty seconds to disolve the sweetener into the juice. Pour through a funnel into a 2 liter bottle. Slowly, very slowly, add the sparkling water. Watch for it to start foaming rapidly. If it does, quickly screw on the cap to contain the bubbles and not make a mess. Place in the fridge for ten minutes or so to dissolve teh syrup, co2, and sparkling water together. When the bubbles are gone, slowly add the remaining sparking water to the top. Ca[p and shake. Put in the fridge to get cold.
This home made soda tasted just like eating the fresh grapes, but with bubbles. It was so wonderfully flavored, and thirst quenching.
You could use fresh blueberries, or raspberries, or strawberries, or oranges, kiwi, mango, pineapple, apple, whatever flavor you desire. I'm thinking grapefruit would be exceptional. Oh, and don't forget some good apples.
Seeeeeeeya; Chief Longwind of the North
