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Effervescing Drinks

A fizzy drink made by mixing tartaric acid syrup with soda water and ice.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Effervescing Drinks

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the solutions

  1. Dissolve tartaric acid in water or syrup and store in a glass jar.

  2. Prepare another gallon of plain boiled or distilled water and add carbonate of soda.

Serve

  1. Pour half a tumbler of the carbonate of soda water into a glass.

  2. Add a wineglass of the acid syrup and a lump of ice if desired.

  3. Shake gently and serve immediately.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Tartaric acid
Supplies the acid that reacts with carbonate of soda to release carbon dioxide bubbles.
Carbonate of soda
Reacts with the acid to produce the gas that makes the drink fizz.

The step that matters

Shake gently and serve immediately. Carbon dioxide escapes quickly from liquids once the acid and carbonate have mixed, so the fizz fades if the drink sits. Gentle shaking keeps the reaction going without driving off too much gas.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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