Pop, Bubble & Fizz
By Tove Nilsson
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This book is not about sickly sweet soft drinks. It’s about tasty alternatives with the perfect balance between acidity, sweetness and bitterness.
Pop, Bubble & Fizz has a sparkling selection of easy-to-follow recipes for all your favourite drinks including home brewed sodas, iced teas and coffees, ice cream sodas and more. Learn how to make delicious homemade soda syrups from beautiful natural ingredients, how to mix the ultimate lemonade, how to make fun and fruity bubble tea, and discover the brewing secrets behind the kombucha trend that’s taken the USA by storm. Plus, you can accompany your refreshing drinks with an array of irresistible salty and sweet snacks, from flavoured popcorn to crispy onion rings, and gourmet crisps to indulgent churros.
Complemented by gorgeous photography throughout, it’s never been easier to enjoy a round of thirst-quenching drinks.
Tove Nilsson
Tove Nilsson is a chef, food-writer and sommelier. She often writes for Sweden’s leading food magazines, takes part in the TV4 morning news programme and is often heard on radio where she shares her tastiest recipes and tells about the latest trends in the food world.
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Pop, Bubble & Fizz - Tove Nilsson
INTRODUCTION
Ilike ice-cold drinks and I’m particular when it comes to how cold they are. I stock up the freezer with ice and feel a bit down if I have to drink soda or lemonade without ice. Besides, if it’s a soda, you don’t get that same tickling feeling from the carbonic acid if the drink is lukewarm. Because that’s the sensation I’m after – that prickly cold mouthful that gets the flavours going and quenches the thirst.
After working as a chef and a food writer for many years I trained as sommelier to learn more about combining food and drink. I soon realised that it’s actually not only wine, decent beer and spirits that can match with the food, but also beverages flavoured with fruit, herbs and spices.
I’m on a constant hunt for exciting liquid flavours and experiences: the acidity in a perfectly balanced lemonade, the fresh taste of a melon and lime soda or the bitterness in a grapefruit-fermented soda.
My earliest memories of fizzy drinks go back to my childhood when I was allowed to go down into the larder in the basement and pick a bottle of pop from the red plastic crate. It stood on the shelf next to homemade cordial and marmalade.
I also remember the feeling of luxury when standing in the food store choosing which 24 fizzy pops we should fill the compartments with. My favourites were Swedish classics such as sugar soda, or raspberry or other fruit sodas.
My taste for fizzy drinks has changed over the years. Today I get more excited by drinks that have a lovely dry character with a good balance between acidity and sweetness. Once you’ve tried homemade soda it’s difficult even to consider the sugar-infested fizzy pop you often get at the supermarket. The naturally fermented soda is a particular favourite. Through lacto-fermentation, the finished drink gets a deep flavour that’s almost irresistible.
My hunt for drinks has taken me all over the world. In Mexico I gulped down buckets of cooling agua de sandía while crunching on freshly fried tortilla chips with guacamole sitting by tables covered with salsa-sticky wax cloths. I munched the occasional coriander-stuffed taco with a glass of agua de flor de Jamaica on the beach and, after dinners of spicy enchiladas, I sipped on a sickly sweet but oh-so-cooling horchata, made from rice and with a taste of cinnamon and vanilla, almost like a milkshake.
In the Amazon jungle I almost missed the flight back to Lima when I just had to try a glass of juice made from cashew apple that a local show owner had praised to high heaven. I still remember the taste, which was a bit nutty and creamy but still refreshing and cooling.
In Peru I drank the country’s pride, Inca Kola, a poisonous-looking, bright yellow soda that tastes of bubblegum. It was frankly disgusting the first time I tried it, but after some time I couldn’t be without it at the weekend. Once back home, the addiction slowly went away once the memories of the trip started to fade.
In England I’ve scoffed down piles of vinegar crisps while sipping iced tea and rose lemonade. And in Asia I’ve had sickly sweet bubble tea, a drink that comes with lots of slimy bubbles made from tapioca at the bottom. It doesn’t sound very nice but, just like a Mexican horchata, can be compared to a milkshake or an iced tea with a lot of milk.
Nowadays I always have a batch of kombucha brewing in my kitchen after having tried it for the first time in the US – I was hooked after the first mouthful of the acidic fresh fermented tea.
I’ve drunk my way through a whole lot of what the world has to offer in refreshing alcohol-free beverages, but it’s been through my travels to the US that I’ve realised that soda and fizzy drinks can be so much more than an artificially sweet, factory-produced drink: making them can be a real craft. In recent years I’ve noticed a trend towards using natural ingredients as a base and adding your own carbonated water, and brewing your own soda using natural fermentation. We are turning further away from the bottles of soda made with chemically produced corn syrup that were designed to travel long distances and instead using filtered tap water and Demerara sugar or molasses as a base.
From visiting small soda producers and soda fountains I’ve learned the basics of soda production using natural ingredients. And I’ve gathered all my notes here together with recipes for cooled lemonades and fruit beverages, and some tasty snacks to go with them. After a period of testing you can start swapping berries, fruit and spices to make your own flavour combinations. The important thing is to stick to the same ratio of yeast and soda to liquid to avoid over-fermenting and failed fermentation. Apart from that you’ll just have to load up the freezer with ice and get started on the boiling, brewing, pressing and blending.
Good luck!
Tove
IllustrationSODA
from
SCRATCH
It’s easy to make your own soda. You don’t need any advanced equipment and – in contrast to brewing beer, wine and cider – it’s very quick to produce a tasty fizzy drink. If you just take it easy, follow the recipes and don’t let yourself get upset if the first batch isn’t completely successful, you’ll be able to drink plenty of glasses of ice-cold soda.
I’ve created loads of recipes for different types of soda – some of which are quick and can be served up after 10 minutes and others that are a little more advanced and will need to go through a fermentation process in order to become bubbly and carbonated.
One tip is to read through the information on the next few pages carefully before you get started, as it will make it a lot easier to follow the recipes and then – after a little practice – start to create your own.
IllustrationCARBONIC ACID
IllustrationThe important thing about soda is carbonic acid and there are several different ways to create these tasty bubbles. You can either mix together carbonated water with flavoured syrup, brew soda with yeast, or use natural fermentation.
The simplest technique is to use a soda maker or a classic soda siphon that can be found in department stores. With one of these and some soda syrup, you can mix your own drink, as you would with a cordial, and decide for yourself how concentrated a flavour you want. This is the classic technique and is pretty much what happens when you get a drink from a soda dispenser – a flavoured concentrate mixing with carbonated water. That’s why coke can taste different depending on where you are, as any residual flavours in the water will flavour the drink.
Another technique is to brew the soda using yeast or through natural fermentation. When brewing with yeast I use liquid champagne or cider yeast. (The Edelmans and Wyeast brands give the least amount of residual flavour.) After many tests using normal baker’s yeast and beer yeast, I decided that there isn’t any alternative to the champagne yeast, since the soda simply didn’t end up tasting nice.
A lot of people might think it sounds complicated to brew with yeast, but it’s not. You mix together a tasty juice as a base – from fruit, spices or berries – then simply add a little yeast. The important thing is not to add too much or you could get an explosion in your kitchen!
The third technique, in which everything is made from scratch without any additives, is the one I like the best. Here you lacto-ferment the soda, just like when making sauerkraut, kimchi or other fermented vegetables. The end result is a bubbly soda with a fantastic flavour and character.
Another thing that’s good about this technique is that it’s possible to ferment the soda until it is almost completely dry. For this, you leave the soda in the glass jar to ferment for a little longer, while checking