Jamaican Sorrel Soda
Jamaican sorrel soda is a traditional Jamaican carbonated drink consisting of sweetened hibiscus tea with added ginger.
Source and licence
"Jamaican Sorrel Soda" from the Wikibooks Cookbook (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Jamaican_Sorrel_Soda, revision 4601089), by its contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Jamaican_Sorrel_Soda&action=history), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).
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Ingredients
- 1 cup (240 ml) water
- 3 hibiscus (roselle) tea bags or 3 tsp (15 ml) dried hibiscus
- 6 ea. ¼ in (0.67 cm) cubes of ginger (optional)
- ½ cup (120 ml) white sugar
- Carbonated water, as needed
Method
- Combine the water, hibiscus, and ginger in a pot. Boil for about 15 minutes.
- Remove and discard the hibiscus and ginger.
- Stir the sugar into the liquid, and simmer until you have about 5 oz (150 ml) syrup.
- Remove from the heat and let cool.
- To make the finished soda, mix 1 volume of syrup with 5 volumes of sparkling water.