Recipe and source notes

Cola V

6 servings Source yield

Ingredients

  • 20 mg caffeine (optional)
  • ½ tsp (2.5 ml) cocktail bitters
  • ½ tsp (2.5 ml) powdered cinnamon
  • ½ tsp (2.5 ml) powdered nutmeg
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • ½ in. wide strip of lemon peel cut around the fruit's circumference
  • ½ in. wide strip of lemon peel cut around the fruit's circumference
  • ½ in. wide strip of orange peel cut around the fruit's circumference
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • ½ cup (120 ml) water
  • 1 cup (240 ml) coconut sugar
  • Carbonated water, as needed

Make it step by step

  1. Boil all of the ingredients except for the vanilla extract and bitters in a pot until it becomes sticky.
  2. Strain out the solids.
  3. Add the vanilla extract and bitters.
  4. To make the finished soda, combine 1 volume of syrup with 5 volumes of carbonated water.

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Recipe source

Adapted from Wikibooks Cookbook by Wikibooks contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Formatting adapted; listed quantities and instructions are retained from the source.

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