Cola soda, a homemade recipe to try

It is possible to prepare cola at home, you no longer have to go to the market to buy the famous brands of soda. It is not exactly a simple or easy preparation, but it is possible, and something to experiment with from time to time, to surprise the little ones at their birthday parties. If the guidelines are followed there will be no problems whatsoever and the result will be amazing. On the other hand, when you make cola at home, a much healthier drink is left than the commercial one, and you can control the amount of sugar (which is what does the most damage). The free recipe is a project of OpenCola, a company that in 2001 was founded by Cory Doctorow, John Henson and Grad Conn to explain and promote the drink. Ingredients: 10 grams of gum arabic for food 10 ml of water Essential oils: 3.5 ml of orange, 1 ml of lemon, 1 ml of nutmeg, 1 ml of cinnamon, 0.25 of coriander, 0.25 of grapefruit, 0.25 of lavender and 0.25 ml of lime. 5 ml of 75% citric acid 28 liters of water 38 kilos of sugar 5 ml of caffeine 30 ml of caramel coloring Carbonated water How to prepare the cola drink: Mix the essential oils, the gum arabic and the water. Mix well with the mixer. It can be stored in an airtight glass bottle (of this mixture, which is called “aroma”, you must reserve 10 ml for the cola preparation). To prepare the concentrate: mix water and powdered citric acid, in a ratio of 1 to 3: for this recipe you have to mix 13 grams of citric acid and 4.5 ml of water. Mix the aroma with the citric acid solution. Mix the water with the sugar and add the caffeine, if desired. Add the aromatic mixture little by little to the sugar water and mix well. Add the coloring last.Add the carbonated water in the following proportion: one part of the concentrate to five parts of carbonated water, although it can be adjusted to the taste of whoever prepares the soda. The idea is that you prepare the cola in sufficient quantities, not only for one bottle but for much more. But the amounts of ingredients are the basic ones, from there you can double and triple the amount you want. It is possible that in the aroma, saved, the arabic gum separates, in which case you just have to mix it again to prepare more concentrate. You can also reduce the amount of sugar.