I'll jump in here with my first post on this board.......
Been a Voyeur for many years......Somebody wispered in my ear the other day, "Kid come chat with us".........
Soda pop......Carbonated beverage........Primo stuff.........
The thirst quencher of my youth..........
Lots of the brands of my youth are no longer available......Some still are....Very nostalgic stuff....
My first attempt at making my own soda turned our surprisingly well, considering I was pretty young......
12 or 13 abouts......
Never being one to fear messing up the kitchen, was told I could as long as I cleaned up the mess when done..........
Mom was very supportive of my culinary endeavours.....Childish as they were at the time......I did create a heck of a Hunters Stew that was composed primarily of what I could find in the garden and any leftovers from the frig..
I used to go grocery shopping with my Mom as a child mainly along to help keep an eye on my little sister.....
This one trip to the grocer I notice he has Sasparilla wood root chips in celophene bags......
I was thrilled.....Making my own Root Beer came immediatly to mind.....I talked my Mom into also buying several bags of the wood chips....I was a pretty goood talker........
Several days later my first attempt at doing something with the wood chips was to make a boiiled infusion......Tea..
It was pretty good in fact. I had everyone in my family taste it, and they all liked it..
Picture hot root beer tea..........Sugar to taste.........
As I was an avid modeler (Airplanes) I had one plane which sported a CO2 motor. Remember the little silver colored CO2 cartridges which worked also in the old Benjamin air pistols? Same ones in my plane..............Same ones in my fathers seltzer maker. Can I use this Dad?......"FOR WHAT?". I want to carbonize water......."OK, DON'T BUST IT"............
I made an infusion of my Sasparilla root chips, with sugar, actually as I look back I used Karo Syrup, corn syrup.....It's what was available in my Mom's kitchen. Mom had lots of stuff in her kitchen, she loved to cook well........
After letting my infusion of root set in the frig to cool overnight, I poured some into my Pop's carbonizing contraption.
It was a bit bigger then a present day coctail shaker, but was constructed more along the liines of a pressure cooker, with the mechanics to discharge a CO2 cartridge right into the interior......Rather cool little device........My Pappy liked Scotch and soda......Made his own Quinine soda......Said it was closer to the soda water he got in Scotland and Iceland where he spent the war.............
Well anyway......I got rave reveues from my family, for my home made Root Beer..............
Had some fun doing it..........Liked trying new things
Moved on to other explorations......
The point being, if you can come up with a means to carbonize your mix, ya'll can make soda from durn near anything.
What a good Bloody Mary you could mix with Tomato Soda.........
CK, always pushin the envelope.........
I'll try to behave myself, somebody told me the Mod is a crabby Ol'Frt............