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School\u2019s out and we\u2019re in summer mode around here. The kids are spending laid back days swimming and trying to avoid heat stroke.
\nIn an ongoing effort to keep the kids from dehydrating I keep pushing water but they rebel and demand juice or, worse, soda. I\u2019m not an ogre and I love an ice-cold soda on a hot day but all these store-bought, high-fructose corn syrup goodies get expensive when they\u2019re hitting you up all day long.<\/p>\n
Kitchen Daughter, however, discovered this thing.\u00a0 It was a brief reference in The Children\u2019s Quick and Easy Cookbook<\/a> The idea took hold almost immediately.\u00a0 Within a week, she was not only making her own \u2013 not only teaching Nai-Nai how to make them \u2013 but she was even devising her own ingredients. She had become an Italian soda Jedi.<\/p>\n Kitchen Daughter and her grandmother made some syrup from jabuticaba berries (remember them?)<\/a> by boiling them down and adding a small amount of sugar. (OK, maybe more than a little<\/a>.)\u00a0 Right now, there are so many fruits in season you can make your own, but if time\u2019s an issue you can buy a bottle of syrup from the store. Try some of the interesting ones like guava or passion fruit to add a different kick.<\/p>\n Kitchen Daddy gives us an exclusive interview with Daughter, Italian soda Jedi:<\/p>\n KD: So, how do you make an Italian soda? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: First, you need a chopstick, and a bottle of soda water, and this new invented syrup that me and my grandma made. It is really good.<\/em><\/p>\n KD: How much of each ingredient? And how do you put them together? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: You need one cup! Next, you pour in the soda water in it until it fills to the top!<\/em><\/p>\n KD: That much soda water? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: Oh, no! About half a large glass if\u00a0 you have a large glass, or half a small glass if you have a small glass. <\/em><\/p>\n KD: So you have half a glass of soda water.<\/strong><\/p>\n D: That\u2019s right. Don\u2019t forget at least two or three ice cubes! Or four! And some syrup. <\/em><\/p>\n KD: How much syrup? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: A lot! Put some syrup in the bottom until it\u2019s so dark, it\u2019s completely dark!<\/em><\/p>\n KD: So it just gets dark by itself? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: Yup.<\/em><\/p>\n KD: Aaaand\u2026 is that what you use the chopstick for? <\/strong><\/p>\n D: Yes! You stir it! And that\u2019s how you make Italian soda! Ta-daaa!<\/em><\/p>\n To recap:\u00a0 Pour a glass of seltzer water (which has no sugar or sodium) on ice, add a quarter cup (or less) of syrup, stir and have your own coool soda pop drink.<\/p>\n School\u2019s out and we\u2019re in summer mode around here. The kids are spending laid back days swimming and trying to avoid heat stroke. In an ongoing effort to keep the kids from dehydrating I keep pushing water but they rebel and demand juice or, worse, soda. I\u2019m not an ogre and I love an ice-cold…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,216,102],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-outside-the-kitchen","tag-fruit","tag-soda","tag-sugar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorkitchen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=theguilofscie-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0756618142\")
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