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Stefan's perfect cola
- Prep time:
- 10 mins, plus 1 hr cooling
- Cook time:
- 10 mins
- Serves:
- Makes enough syrup for 3 litres cola
Make your own cola? Yes, it can be done. Get your scales out to try Stefan Gates' carefully gauged blend of ingredients
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- Cooks Tips...
- Ten caffeine pills may seem like a lot but this is only half the amount of caffeine found in regular cola drinks. Use a pestle and mortar to finely crush both them and the kola nuts.
Ingredients
For the syrup
- 500ml water
- 750g Sugar
- 10 caffeine pills, ground to powder in pestle and mortar (this will give half the amount of caffeine found in a regular cola, )
- 100ml lime juice
- 10g citric acid
- 1.5g vanilla extract
- 25g kola nuts, finely crushed
- 2 Lemons, grated zest only
For the flavouring
- 0.9g food-grade orange oil
- 0.45g food-grade cinnamon oil
- 0.25g food-grade coriander oil
- 0.45g food-grade nutmeg oil
- 0.45g food-grade neroli oil
Method
1. For the syrup: pour the water into a pan and bring to the boil. Turn off the heat, then add the sugar and stir until dissolved. Stir in all the remaining syrup ingredients and set aside.2. For the flavouring: put all the flavoured oils in a small blender, being careful not to add any more than the recipe states. Add 2 tablespoons of the syrup, or enough to cover the blade of the blender. Blend until the liquids have emulsified.
3. Pour the contents of the blender into the remaining syrup and set aside to cool for 1 hour.
4. Strain the mixture through a clean tea towel or muslin cloth and transfer to a bottle. To serve, add 240ml soda water to 60ml of syrup.
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