Effervescing Soda

Name: Effervescing Soda
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients: half a teaspoonful of powdered bicarbonate of soda; two tablespoonfuls of syrup of any flavor; six or eight times as much cold water; half a teaspoonful of powdered tartaric acid

From The household (of the Detroit free press), 1886

Serves 6

For bottling, mix syrup, flavor, and water, fill bottles, and add tartaric acid.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The household (of the Detroit free press) (1886) by Goff, May Perrin,, page 389. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

EFFERVESCING SODA. Mix half a teaspoonful of powdered bicarbonate of soda thoroughly with two tablespoonfuls of syrup of any flavor to suit the taste. Then add six or eight times as much cold water ; while stirring it mix in half a teaspoonful of powdered tartaric acid

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