Description
Feel free to mix the fruit up to your fancy!
A plethora of extracts can be found online. If you have vanilla extract and heavy cream, you can add a splash of cream to vanilla soda for a cream soda! For orange cream soda, do the same but with an orange-flavored syrup.
Ingredients
For Blueberry Syrup
- 1 cup fresh fruit, blended
- 2-4 teaspoons granulated/coconut sugar, or 1-2 teaspoons of honey
- Squeeze of lemon
For Basic Simple Syrup
1 cup granulated or coconut sugar (or 1/2 cup of honey for Paleo/GAPS diet)
1 cup water
Instructions
For Fruit Syrup
- Blend fruit with lemon juice until smooth.
- Strain through a fine sieve/mesh strainer.
- Combine fruit purée and sugar in a small saucepan, and bring just to a boil
- Cool completely, and serve a couple spoonfuls with a glass full of club soda or sparkling mineral water.
For Basic Simple Syrup
- Combine sugar/honey in a small pot.
- Bring just to a boil, them remove from heat.
- If making a lemon/lime/grapefruit/orange/ginger syrup, add fruit peel or crushed ginger and steep for 30 minutes to an hour. Remove fresh ingredients and cool completely.
- If using a concentrated extract such as vanilla or root beer, add 1-2 tablespoons depending on how strong a flavor you'd like. Taste and see is the best method.
Notes
When replacing sugar with honey for Paleo or GAPS diets, a good place to start is cutting the amount in half. Honey is about twice as sweet as table sugar.
Keywords: simple syrup, homemade soda, berry simple syrup, lemon simple syrup, homemade cream soda, gluten free, paleo, GAPS