Home Made Soft Drink Recipes

Soft drink recipes are fun to try, especially when they are authentic. And with these vintage soda pop recipes from soda fountains, you'll be able to make all manner of refreshing sodas, root beers, vinegar shrubs, cold summer drinks, and homemade soft drinks right in your own kitchen

Your friends will be amazed when they taste them, and you'll have the satisfaction of making something normally only bought. These recipes for homemade soft drinks surprisingly easy to make, and the results are so refreshingly good.

Homemade soft drinks are not as sweet and contain no harmful additives and chemical preservatives -- only fresh, all-natural ingredients. You get to control the sweetness, and you get to choose the all-natural ingredients. That's why these drinks are good for you.

It is not difficult to make your own soft drinks and sodas when you use Grandma's old-fashioned recipes, and the results are most rewarding. You will get to experience the wholesome, refreshing, delicious soft drinks your great-grandparents once enjoyed as children. Simply follow the easy beverage recipes and don't be afraid to experiment.

Believe me, once you taste it, you will love it. Make yourself an old-time soft drink and experience the nostalgic taste today.

Home Soda Fountain

Why not set up an old-time soda fountain in your family room? A home soda fountain is very affordable and certain to impress your guests. It's the perfect addition to any home theater setup.

Berry Crush

Whip up this simple dairy-free smoothie for a refreshing summer drink. Fruit and crushed iced make this thirst-quenching treat satisfying on any warm day.

Ingredients

1. 2 pints of hulled strawberries
2. 1 1/2 cups of crushed ice
3. 1/4 cup confectioners' sugar
4. 2 tablespoons of lime juice

Instructions

• In a blender, combine strawberries, crushed ice, confectioners' sugar, and lime juice.
  
• Blend the mixture until smooth, then serve immediately. Makes 4 cups.

 

To make a smoothie try this video

Lemonade with Berry

This lemony, tangy drink gets sweeter, and prettier, as the cubes melt. You will love picking out the mint sprig and eating the leaves.

Ingredients

1. 1 11.5-oz. can frozen concentrate strawberry or any berry mix juice
2. 24 raspberries or 8 strawberries, sliced (optional)
3. 2 quarts water
4. 1 1/3 cups sugar (or more, to taste)
5. 1 1/3 cups fresh lemon juice
6. 8 lemon slices
7. 8 mint sprigs

Instructions

• Pour the juice concentrate and 1 can of water into a pitcher. Mix to combine, then pour the juice into two ice cube trays, adding raspberries or sliced strawberries if you wish. Freeze. Combine the 2 quarts of water and the sugar in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil and stir to combine. Reduce to a simmer and cook until the sugar is dissolved, about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Strain the lemon juice through a fine sieve into the sugar syrup. Chill. Slit each lemon slice once, from center to rind, then press the slits onto eight glasses. Fill each glass with 3 berry ice cubes and the lemonade. Garnish with a mint sprig. Makes 8 glasses.

 

Check the video 

How To Make Milk Shakes

How To Make Milk Shakes For the coolest, most refreshing milk shakes, chill the milk and make sure the ice cream is frozen hard before making your milk shake. Shakes may be made quickly in a kitchen blender, but you can also make one the old-fashioned way by placing all the ingredients in a sealed container and vigorously shaking it until it is thoroughly mixed and frothy -- a classic milk shake.

Vanilla Milk Shake, or White Cow

You can easily make a traditional vanilla milk shake -- known as a "White Cow" -- by smoothly blending 3 or 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream, 1 tablespoonful of vanilla extract, and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk, depending on the size of your container.

Chocolate Milk Shake, or Brown Cow

You can make a chocolate milk shake or "Brown Cow" by blending 3 or 4 scoops of vanilla ice cream, 1 teaspoonful of vanilla extract, 1/4 cup of chocolate syrup, and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk. If you want a richer, more chocolatey shake, then use chocolate ice cream instead of vanilla.

Milk Shakes, Any Flavor

Simply add 1 or 2 ounces of any flavor of old-time "fountain syrup" to 3 or 4 scoops of homemade ice cream and 1-1/2 to 2 cups of ice-cold milk, then shake or blend till frothy.

Malted Shakes

Malted Milk Shakes or "Malts" were once very popular, but they are not often seen on today's fast-food menus. This always puzzles me since there is nothing like the rich, full-bodied taste of a Malt. You haven't lived till you've tasted an old-fashioned "Chocolate Malt"; they are especially good.

Milk shakes

To make this old-time ice cream parlor treat, just make your milk shake as usual, but first add to it a tablespoonful or two of malted milk powder. Malted milk powder is available at most food stores.

Vanilla Milk Shake Recipe The old-fashioned milk shake recipe  

Fill a glass two-thirds full of milk, sweeten to taste with any fruit syrup or with sugar, and then flavor with vanilla. Fill glass up with cracked ice and shake well together until thoroughly mixed.

Milk Shake Recipes

These early recipes for milk shakes are taken from an old recipe scrapbook of 1929. The first is from an unidentified newspaper clipping of 1912.

Refreshing Milk Drink for Summer

Put into a tumbler about two tablespoonfuls of broken ice, two tablespoonfuls of chocolate syrup, three tablespoonfuls of whipped cream, one gill of milk, and half a gill of soda water from a siphon bottle or Apollinaris water. Stir well before drinking. A tablespoonful of vanilla ice cream is a desirable addition. It is a delicious drink, even if the soda or Apollinaris water and ice cream be omitted.

A plainer drink is made by combining the syrup, a gill and a half of milk, and the ice, and shaking well.

Wild Frosty Chocolate Drink

1-1/2 tablespoonfuls chocolate fountain syrup, 1/2 cup milk, 4 tablespoonfuls ice cream, soda water. Combine syrup, milk, and ice cream. Stir well or shake. Add soda water to fill glass.

Make it at home see video
 

Delicious Chutnies

Chutnies (sauce) are used as taste enhancers, there are no. of varieties available for different snacks, Inn this video you will see 3 different flavours Tomato chutney, Coriander chutney, and Khajoor(date) Imli sweet chutney, which are used almost with every snacks in India

How to Make Dhokla

Dhokla can be made within no time and served to your guests. This nutritious snack from Gujarat in Western India is popular all over the country. Serve it with Tamarind and Mint-coriander Chutneys. Learn how to make instant dhokla. Dhokla is a very popular Gujarati dish. It is very easy to prepare

Ingredients:

 1 1/2 cup gram flour (besan)
2 tsp semolina (suji)
2 tsp eno powder
1/2 tsp sugar
1 lemon (nimbu)
2 green chilly (hari mirch)
8-10 curry leaves (kadi patta)
1 tsp mustard seeds (raai)
1/4 tsp salt (namak)
1 cup water
1 tbsp oil

How to make instant dhokla:

• Mix gram flour, semolina and 1 cup water.
• Grease a container.
• Heat water in a pressure cooker and place sieve (jaali) on it.
• Now add eno powder.
• Immediately pour this mixture in the greased container.
• Place it on jaali and cover the cooker.
• Remove the whistle of the cooker.
• Let it cook at high flame for 15 minutes.
• Then take out the dhoklas out of the container and cut into pieces once it is cooled.
• Heat oil in a pan and crackle mustard seeds. Then put curry leaves.
• Finely chop green chilies.
• Pour this on dhoklas.
• Put 2 cup water, sugar and lemon juice in a container and put all dhoklas in it.
• After 5 minutes take out extra water.
• Garnish with finely chopped dhania patti.
• Serve with some chutney. 

Here is video to explain how to make dhokla

Drinks To Keep You Cool

To improve on a beverage that tastes great, make it fun to drink, too. Try serving punch in a mason jar, a frozen yogurt drink in a sundae dish or a fruit smoothie in a parfait glass. Add a curly straw, a colorful plastic stirrer or a mini paper parasol {available at most party stores for under Rs50($1)}.

ORANGE CREAMSICLE

Like the classic ice-cream treat that inspires it, this refreshing shake combines the zest of orange and the rich, smooth flavor of vanilla.

1 cup orange juice
4 scoops vanilla frozen yogurt

Combine the orange juice and frozen yogurt in a blender or food processor. Blend until creamy. Serves 1.

Home made Cold drinks

PINK FLAMINGO

Naturally sweet, this three-fruit combination is packed with vitamin C and potassium.

1 frozen banana
1/2 cup fresh strawberries
3/4 cup pineapple juice

Combine the fruit and juice in a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth. Serves 1.

SUN TEA PUNCH

Here's an iced tea that's just right for kids and adults. It gets its zip from fruit slices and fresh mint, not caffeine.

6 to 8 bags of decaffeinated tea
1/2 gallon water
4 oranges, 3 juiced and 1 sliced
8 lemons, 7 juiced and 1 sliced
1/3 cup honey
1/2 bunch of mint

steep in the sun for 3 or more hours. Remove the tea bags. Add the remaining ingredients and stir. Pour into tall, ice-filled glasses. Serves 10.
try this ice tea also

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