Unlock your kitchen creativity, take a trip to the past, and discover awesome new flavors with more than 100 easy-to-follow soda syrup recipes, plus 50 old time soda fountain drink formulas!
Get more value out of your home soda maker with healthier, tastier, and more interesting syrups, from basics like cola, orange soda and lemon lime to new sensations like Pumpkin Root Beer, Peach Habanero, Chai Cola, Blackberry Sage, and Cucumber Pineapple. Then learn to make classic drinks from a century ago, like the Centura Phosphate, Fatasma Nog, and the Kiss Me Flip!With devices such as the SodaStream appearing in more and more homes, making your own soda has never been easier or more popular. But are the syrups available in stores leaving you cold? If you’re looking for more flavor sensations than you could ever find at any grocery store, want to recreate a long-lost favorite, or if you’d just like more control over how much sugar and sweetness you’re drinking, it’s surprisingly easy to make your own "Bootleg Soda!"
Included are more 100 soda syrup recipes (many with charming old-timey names!), including: Professor Plum Spice, Honey Cream Soda, Chocolate Waldorf, Mint Lemonade, Twilight Woods Cherry, Orange Herculine, Ecto Surge, Celery Delorean, Rum Raisin Roundie, Locust and Honey Lift, Pineapple Habanero Hopper, Blueberry Garfunkel, Mulled Peach Mulligan, Spiced Butterscotch, Apple Blueberry, Strawberry Snugglepuppy, Honeydew Bunsen… not to mention basics like blackberry, cherry, orange, peach, kiwi, pear, strawberry, ginger ale, and odd choices like SPAM, cavendish, Popcorn, and Egg Soda (a fountain classic that tastes better than it sounds). Almost all can be made from fresh, easy-to-find ingredients, and the recipes are simple to follow or to modify to your own taste.
With hilarious commentary and fascinating historical notes from the famous Smart Aleck Staff, the "back row hooligans" of the text book industry who’ve brought you such hits as The Smart Aleck's Guide to American History (Random House 2009), Bootleg Soda: A Smart Aleck's Guide is one of the most entertaining cook books you’ll ever read!
And, since you’re likely to end up with some leftover syrups, there are more than 50 formulas for old time soda fountain drinks made from mixing them up, such as Midnight on the Midway, Empire Punch, Arctic Snowball, Baseball Special, Over the Waves, Kiss Me Flip, Grape Egg Nog, Good Cheer, Twentieth Century Phosphate, Brunswick Cooler, and other vintage classics that can keep you cool while you wait for the Wells Fargo Wagon to arrive and talk about whether to vote for Roosevelt or Taft, plus a handy guide to soda jerker slang.
Including the fountain formulas and the bonus recipes for cocktails like The Proton Pack and the Bath and Body Boiler, there are more than 150 recipes in this specially-priced volume, plus tons of history and commentary, with dozens of photos and vintage illustrations. Includes active internal links throughout, and an active table of contents.
