how to make cola

How to make cola,

The recipe for cola is still a big secret, but this recipe is pretty damn close to get a cola flavoured very refreshing cola like syrup. Bij infusing a neutral oil to carry the citrus flavours into a dark sugar syrup


Ingredients needed

10 gram lemon peel
15 gram orange peel
50 ml lime juice
2 gram kaffir lime leaf
150 ml neutral oil, like grapeseed oil

1.5 gram ground nutmeg
1.5 gram corianderseed
1 tonka bean (optional) if you cannot find one, skip it
5 gram cinnamon stick

1teaspoon and 2 gram of citric acid
0.5 gram of xanthaangom

500 gram dark sugar
500 ml water

Step one make the fragrant oil. Combine the orange- and lemon peel together with the kaffir lime leaves and dry ingredients. Cover with oil

Preheat your oven to 80 degrees Celsius

Put the oil in the oven for 1 hour and let it cool down in the oven for about two hours

For the dark sugar syrup

Combine water and brown sugar boil, this and add 1 teaspoon of citric acid. Let cool down

To emulsify the oil and water we need xanthaangom to avoid separation of water and oil

3 tablespoon of infused fragrant oil
50 ml of lime juice
0.5 gram of xanthaangom
2 gram citric acid

Start with 200 ml of syrup to emulsify the oil into the sugar syrup. Us a blender or stick blender. Than add the rest of the brown sugar syrup.

Enjoy this refreshing syrup with soda water and ice……

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