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I drink a lot of soda. Not sorry about that. :-) So among the wedding presents we've got the most use out of has been a SodaStream. Much less recycling: hurrah!
Naturally, then, SodaStream recently stopped production of all three of the flavors I enjoy (caffeine-free diet cola, diet pink grapefruit [much pinker than Fresca, but that's the basic idea], and my favorite, diet cream soda). They say they are pivoting to focus on flavored water rather than soda ("a re-branding to focus on health, wellness, and the benefit that comes with making water exciting") but will have better availability of flavors by the end of January 2016. So there will be a caffeine-free diet cola at that time; the pink grapefruit thing will probably be a water essence rather than a soda, but whatever, I can live without Fresca.
The diet cream soda has been completely discontinued. Story of my life, really. Diet root beer abounds, but people don't seem to want cream soda unless it has sugar. I know it can be hard to get the flavor profile right around the sort of dry bitterness of a lot of the artificial sweeteners, but there have been successes (A&W, SodaStream itself, the much-beloved Dr. Brown's), and I can't have been the only one buying the stuff. SIGH.
But there's no real reason I can't make my own flavor syrup, right? The SodaStream fizzes the water, is all it does, so if their discontinuing the flavor I want to buy means I only give them money at rare intervals when I need to replace the CO2 canister, I can deal with that. How hard can it be?
If I wanted to make real cream soda, I would make simple syrup and shove a lot of vanilla into it. So the question is, what do I do to make this happen with Splenda? (Probably the answer is "experiment," but if anyone has already done such experiments and would like to share wisdom, I'm listening.)
Naturally, then, SodaStream recently stopped production of all three of the flavors I enjoy (caffeine-free diet cola, diet pink grapefruit [much pinker than Fresca, but that's the basic idea], and my favorite, diet cream soda). They say they are pivoting to focus on flavored water rather than soda ("a re-branding to focus on health, wellness, and the benefit that comes with making water exciting") but will have better availability of flavors by the end of January 2016. So there will be a caffeine-free diet cola at that time; the pink grapefruit thing will probably be a water essence rather than a soda, but whatever, I can live without Fresca.
The diet cream soda has been completely discontinued. Story of my life, really. Diet root beer abounds, but people don't seem to want cream soda unless it has sugar. I know it can be hard to get the flavor profile right around the sort of dry bitterness of a lot of the artificial sweeteners, but there have been successes (A&W, SodaStream itself, the much-beloved Dr. Brown's), and I can't have been the only one buying the stuff. SIGH.
But there's no real reason I can't make my own flavor syrup, right? The SodaStream fizzes the water, is all it does, so if their discontinuing the flavor I want to buy means I only give them money at rare intervals when I need to replace the CO2 canister, I can deal with that. How hard can it be?
If I wanted to make real cream soda, I would make simple syrup and shove a lot of vanilla into it. So the question is, what do I do to make this happen with Splenda? (Probably the answer is "experiment," but if anyone has already done such experiments and would like to share wisdom, I'm listening.)
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One recipe calls for sugar, water, gum arabic, nutmeg, egg whites and oil of lemon. The other calls for white sugar, tataric acid, wintergreen oil, water, egg whites, flour, and lemon juice.
Neither will give you a modern cream soda taste, in my estimation, but there is also a recipe for vanilla syrup -- vanilla extract, simple syrup, citric acid, foam extract, and tincture of musk.
I'm not sure how Splenda dissolves into water, so making a decent simple syrup would be the first step. Surely someone has already figured that one out?
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