Holiday Soda
This holiday soda differs from anything you will find in a can and is perfect for the holiday season. It derives from a Flavor Lab recipe. Make sure that you use a species of edible pine; some species are toxic.
Source and licence
"Holiday Soda" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Holiday_Soda, revision 4637709), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Holiday_Soda&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Ingredients
- ½ cup (120 ml) edible pine needles (preferably Douglas fir)
- Peel from 3 clementine oranges (or a similar easy-to-peel variety such as tangerines)
- 1 cup (240 ml) white sugar
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 4 cloves
- 2 tbsp (30 ml) cardamom pods
Method
- Wash the pine needle branch and clementines.
- Remove the pine needles from the branches and peel the clementines.
- Mix the pine needles and clementine peels with the sugar in a container, and let this sit in the fridge for 24 hours. The sugar will extract the liquid from the citrus peels and produce a syrupy liquid.
- Boil the cinnamon sticks, cloves, and cardamom pods in the water.
- Pour the warm water with boiled spices into the container with pine needles and peels.
- Mix the ingredients together and strain the mixture.
- To make the finished soda, mix 1 volume of syrup with 5 volumes of carbonated water.