Homemade Root Beer, Soda, & Pop

Homemade Root Beer Soda, and Pop is currently the only book on the market reviving the old-fashioned American activity of brewing non-alcoholic root beers and other softdrinks. Make natural sodas at home with this guide to creating traditional and modern soft drinks. To combat the high cost and limited variety of commercial sodas, many families are rediscovering the nearly lost art of making their own homemade soft drinks. Using the easy, step-by-step instructions in this collection of hard-to-find recipes, anyone can make traditional and modern beverages, and create their own house recipes. History Professor Dr. Stephen Cresswell has collected more than 60 recipes for beverages using natural ingredients like ginger, sassafras, licorice, burdock, cinnamon, vanilla, citrus fruits, birch and maple sap, molasses and more. Included are recipes for: Old-Fashioned Root Beer, Sarsaparilla, Birch Beer, Virgin Islands Ginger Beer, Lemon-Lime Soda, Cherry Vanilla Soda, Cream Soda, Raspberry Shrub, Molasses Switchel, Coffee Whizzer, Fruit Smoothie, and more. Throughout the book, readers will find facts about the recipes' origins, and about late nineteenth-century American life. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.