America's Market - Make Your Own Soda Event

Saturday, September 10th from 12-4.

9 Huntington Lane, Wheeling. (847) 850-2563

Hi,

Do you know anything more? Cost?

Regards,

Nope, not a damn thing.
Either way, assuming I work late and the cat's vet trip goes smoothly, I'm going. I miss those folks, and boy, could I go for a ginger beer.

Pie Lady—

Have you tied Barritts Ginger Beer? It is available in regular and sugar-free formulas at:

Village Market
4034 W. Dempster
Skokie, IL 60076
847-933-0900

http://www.villagemarketplace.net/Skokie/

Yum!

Don't think I can make it to Wheeling on Saturday, unfortunately, but this is of interest to me -- we just bought a SodaStream seltzer maker -- mainly for making plain seltzer, which we drink constantly. But if I could also occasionally make some homemade sodas, that sounds interesting -- nothing with too much sugar, though. Anyone have favorite sodas that you make at home?

jimwdavis wrote:Pie Lady—

Have you tied Barritts Ginger Beer? It is available in regular and sugar-free formulas at:

Village Market
4034 W. Dempster
Skokie, IL 60076
847-933-0900

http://www.villagemarketplace.net/Skokie/

Yum!

No, but I plan to soon. It's also at Schaefer's in Skokie, if I'm not mistaken.
9965 Gross Point Rd. Skokie, Illinois 60076

Judy H wrote: Anyone have favorite sodas that you make at home?

Thanks to the inspiration of some wonderful ginger syrup provided by Happy Stomach at a Girl's Night Gathering a couple of months ago, I've been experimenting with different combinations and using the syrups to make my own "sodas" (club soda with homemade syrup added). Favorite combos include a plum, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger combo (also made by HS at a "put your guests to work dinner party"); ginger-fig (hit those nice looking figs from my 1st trip to Mariano's); and Michigan peach, meyer lemon and ginger. The best part of this is that I can adjust the level of sweetness. And they make pretty damn good cocktail mixers too

Thanks to Happy Stomach I used Green Zebra's recipe for Pink Peppercorn Thyme Soda last spring for the Dessert Exchange I hosted.

boudreaulicious wrote:

Judy H wrote: Anyone have favorite sodas that you make at home?

Thanks to the inspiration of some wonderful ginger syrup provided by Happy Stomach at a Girl's Night Gathering a couple of months ago, I've been experimenting with different combinations and using the syrups to make my own "sodas" (club soda with homemade syrup added). Favorite combos include a plum, cinnamon, cardamom and ginger combo (also made by HS at a "put your guests to work dinner party"); ginger-fig (hit those nice looking figs from my 1st trip to Mariano's); and Michigan peach, meyer lemon and ginger. The best part of this is that I can adjust the level of sweetness. And they make pretty damn good cocktail mixers too

Okay, never done this before, so I need a little more info-- you put these things in a blender and add the results to the soda water? A recipe for the ginger syrup? All sounds yummy, so much better than store-bought.

No blender. I don't really have a recipe but you can find them on line and in canning books. You can either cook the fruit down and then add in a pre-made simple syrup or vice versa--make a simple syrup and then add in your fruit/spice elements. If you want a chunky topping for pancakes, leave the fruit pulp in. If you want to make soda syrup, strain as thoroughly as possible. I didn't have any cheesecloth handy so my fig syrup still has the fig seeds in it which I don't mind but it's not as "pristine" as some would want

***Edited to add that I just stick these in the fridge and they last a few weeks--I haven't attempted to can it because I'm not following proper canning ingredient protocol--if you want to do that, you'd probably need to be more careful about ingredients...

Hi,

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Regards,