To combat the high cost and limited variety of commercial sodas, many families are rediscovering the nearly lost art of making their own homemade soft drinks.       Using the easy, step-by-step instructions in this collection of hard-to-find recipes, anyone can make traditional and modern beverages, and create their own house recipes.       History Professor Dr. Stephen Cresswell has collected more than 60 recipes for beverages using natural ingredients like ginger, sassafras, licorice, burdock, cinnamon, vanilla, citrus fruits, birch and maple sap, molasses and more.        Included are recipes for: Old-Fashioned Root Beer Sarsaparilla Soda Birch Beer Virgin Islands Ginger Beer Lemon-Lime Soda Cherry Vanilla Soda Cream Soda Raspberry Shrub Molasses Switchel Coffee Whizzer Fruit Smoothie and much more!       Throughout the book, you will find facts about the recipes' origins, and about late nineteenth-century American life.

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128 pages, 7 3/8" x 9 1/4"; Paperback

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