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Homemade Soda
Making your own soda is easy and inexpensive. Best of all, you control the sweetness level and ingredients, so you can create a drink that’s exactly what you want. Using a few simple techniques, anyone can make a spectacular variety of beverages. Try Pomegranate Punch, Chai Fizz, Fruity Root Beer, Sparkling Orange Creamsicle, Honey Cardamom Fizzy Water, Sparkling Espresso...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
June 1st 2011
by Storey Publishing, LLC
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In this day and age of endless chemical laden sodas, one begins to dream of a simpler time. A time when soda was made with real sugar. A time when flavors of soda actually tasted like something nature made. I remember my parents had purchased a home soda maker from Schwan's when I was a child. I loved the idea of making my own soda. Even today, I collect recipes for all natural homebrewed sodas but brewing my own is intimidating. I could make it, it's not that hard but I always feel like I need...more
Making my own soda is something I've been interested in for awhile, so I approached Andrew Schloss's Homemade Soda with a lot of curiosity. Primarily a recipe book for soda, with a bit of interesting historical detail and humor sprinkled in here and there, the book is fairly straightforward in approach and the recipes are generally very simple to follow. There are three approaches to soda making and many of the recipes can be made with all three (although some are restricted to only one approach...more
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This recipe book had everything I wanted:
-Tons of recipes for syrups that can be carbonated
-Interesting approaches to fruit-based mixes
-The level of water-to-syrup for seltzer bottle carbonation
-A wide variety of recipes to try
If you are looking for lots of syrup recipes to try, then this is your book. The recipes are simple and quick, mostly making a puree or dissolving syrup, which you then add fizzy seltzer to. If you are looking for more complex recipes or brewing techniques, this may not be...more
-Tons of recipes for syrups that can be carbonated
-Interesting approaches to fruit-based mixes
-The level of water-to-syrup for seltzer bottle carbonation
-A wide variety of recipes to try
If you are looking for lots of syrup recipes to try, then this is your book. The recipes are simple and quick, mostly making a puree or dissolving syrup, which you then add fizzy seltzer to. If you are looking for more complex recipes or brewing techniques, this may not be...more
You might call it soda, pop, or coke but whatever part of the world you are from you've most likely had a soda. Using beautifully illustrated and easy to understand recipes you will learn everything there is to know about soda from it's history to how it is made. The 200 recipes in this book rate from beginner to advanced, but there is most definitely something for everyone. Whether you want to make an egg cream or try your hand at birch beer or cola there's a recipe for you in this book. Some a...more
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Soda is that drink which we in the Plains areas usually call “pop”. There is a distinct regional preference for what we call this drink, including “coke” with a small “c” which is generally used in the South. Soda comes from the connection to sodium, a mineral in natural spring water. Pop refers to the sound made when the cork is pulled from a carbonated beverage. So now that we know we are talking about the drinks we love, here is a book showing you the way to make your own. After...more
Soda is that drink which we in the Plains areas usually call “pop”. There is a distinct regional preference for what we call this drink, including “coke” with a small “c” which is generally used in the South. Soda comes from the connection to sodium, a mineral in natural spring water. Pop refers to the sound made when the cork is pulled from a carbonated beverage. So now that we know we are talking about the drinks we love, here is a book showing you the way to make your own. After...more
After getting a SodaStream as a gift, I started buying their syrups and didn't love them. I do love it for seltzer, but crave different soda flavors. Along comes "Homemade Soda" and my quest is over! There are so many recipes that I will never be able to make them all (200, in fact)...soda syrups, teas, juices, flavored waters, floats, health drinks and more! And for those of you who don't have a soda machine or a siphon, most recipes for the syrups can just be mixed with bottled seltzer!
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This could be the first "cookbook" I've ever considered buying after flipping through it.
Do you want all-natural cola? Here's how, with three different methods depending on the amount of time you have. Green tea coconut soda? Cardamom apricot soda?? Orange honey ginger ale??? Cocoa chile soda???? You could make soda pop until you were 85 and not make it through all the recipes.
Granted, I haven't tried any of these yet, but the drool factor alone is worth a few stars. And the explanations are ver...more
Do you want all-natural cola? Here's how, with three different methods depending on the amount of time you have. Green tea coconut soda? Cardamom apricot soda?? Orange honey ginger ale??? Cocoa chile soda???? You could make soda pop until you were 85 and not make it through all the recipes.
Granted, I haven't tried any of these yet, but the drool factor alone is worth a few stars. And the explanations are ver...more
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This one's definitely on my to-buy list, as a print book. Perfect for summer especially; make your beverage after hitting the farmers market for the freshest fruit or other ingredients. From the colorful, slightly retro fun illustrations and photos to the wildly varied recipes, it's very enticing. The book begins with the highlights of the history of carbonation and soda and the history bits mixed in are pretty interesting. Then it covers three kinds of soda making: 1.) make your syrup with your...more
I just came across this at the library by chance but it's exactly what I've been hoping to find. For various reasons, I've stopped drinking commercially made sodas, and although I feel great, I somewhat miss variety in my beverages. I'd already started making homemade gingerale with great success and am excited to try so many recipes in this book. My kids already enjoy helping make gingerale and knowing they'll grow up knowing how to make so many alternative drinks to the calorie and chemically...more
Can't wait to try out some of these drinks! What I like is that I don't have to buy expensive soda making equipment. The author gives you 3 options/techniques which helped me to pick out only the ones where I can just mix the ingredients with seltzer. Also, there were some terrific sections describing the history of soda as well as a number of colorful timelines as I'm a sucker for graphs!
The recipes look easy, for the most part. I've opted to use the seltzer method, rather than making my own seltzer with a siphon, and my honey almond cream soda is currently delicious. There are several other recipes I can't wait to try, too!
Not sure middle school students would have the $$ or time or energy to create their own soda. Good book about creating healthier versions of favorites sodas but probably not for my demographic.
I don't normally rate cookbooks if I haven't tried the recipes, but the amount of soda history and science nerdery is high and makes this book worth reading.
The author needs to choose which level of reader his is aiming at. Several times it feels like he is talking to ten year olds, and others at biochemists. I don't have a good feeling about this title.
fun drinks--Than would be a fan!
Get this again when I have more time.
my soda siphon's getting a workout!
good read about soda pop!
This book is full of delightful ideas and flavor combinations that have, so far, seduced me at the kitchen table, but I've yet to buy my own seltzer bottle, probably because I'm just too lazy. It's on my to-do-when-I've got-some-free-time list, and right now sits on my bookshelf as simply great food porn.
Some very interesting flavor combinations and ideas, I can't wait to try them.
tons of drink recipes, most with multiple ways to make them. as all but a few are syrups, they could be blended with water for a non-fizzy drink as well. some recipes use unusual ingredients.
Lovely book for those of us with soda water makers. I've had a lot of fun exploring new recipes to make with my soda stream. I'm happy to say I've discovered a few lifetime keepers!
I made a few of these recipes using seltzer from my SodaStream and they were all excellent. I want to buy the book and try a lot more of 'em!
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