I eat food » Real (or as real as it’s going to get) Root Beer. I’ve been making my own sodas for a while now. I started off cheating, which, by the way, I hear is all the rage right now. It seems like a lot of people are buying those SodaStreams and mixing the soda water they make with different flavorings. I have nothing against that, in fact, I’m planning to one day get my own CO2 tank and rig up my own version of a SodaStream so I can make seltzer. But ever since I perfected my real ginger ale recipe, I’ve been hooked on really making soda.
In addition to ginger ale, I liked making root beer and birch beer, but I was daunted by the prospect of looking for roots and for a long time stuck to using extracts. The sodas I made from the extracts tasted fine, but I knew that couldn’t go on forever. So I bought Homemade Root Beer, Soda & Pop by Stephen Cresswell. I also call for sarsaparilla, though you can omit it (I made my first batch without it and it was very good). You need champagne yeast. Finally, you need bottles. Real Root Beer. I eat food » Real (or as real as it’s going to get) Root Beer. The Hacker’s Guide to Tea. @beala The problem is - and I'm amazed that no one has mentioned this yet - that the article also doesn't mention how much tea to use. The 'Western' style of brewing tea is "not much tea, long brewing time". You then get the all the flavour out of the leaves in the first infusion and then have to throw the leaves out. And you also get a bit of bitterness from it too.
The Chinese way - brewed in a gaiwan if it's green or white tea and a yixing pot if it's black or oolong - is lots of leaves and not much brewing time. I'm shocked that Adaggio - the most famous high quality tea company - has such nonsensical brewing advice. How to Make a Pumpkin Spice Latte At Home. Fall is the season for cozy sweaters, colorful leaves, and of course, the Pumpkin Spice Latte. And even though the world panicked when Starbucks kept running out of their Pumpkin Spice syrup, there’s no shortage of Pumpkin Spice Latte goodness: from the VIA pre-packaged pumpkin brew to the Pumpkin Spice Latte ice cream in stores in November, you don’t have to go far to find a PSL. How to Make Your Own Halloween Candy at Home But with the fall treat comes a hefty price, and added-on calories and sugar. Besides shelling out $5 or so for a pumpkin drink, you get nearly 20 percent of your daily value of calories from fat from one 16-ounce Pumpkin Spice Latte, with whole milk and whipped cream.
More importantly, the key ingredient to a PSL — the pumpkin spice syrup — hides a slew of ingredients that make most people take pause. So we set out to create our own Pumpkin Spice Latte without those pesky additives. Tags: Beverage, Pumpkin, Fall, Halloween. White, oolong, black, and green tea. Tea sets. Teapots.