Orange Soda II

Orange soda is a sweetened, carbonated beverage flavored with orange. This recipe is modified from one by Flavorlab.

Category: Beverages  ·  Serves 3

Ingredients

• 1½ ea. oranges, washed
• ½ cups (120 ml) white sugar
• ½ ea. orange, juiced
• Carbonated water, as needed

Instructions

1. Remove the zest from the oranges in strips, leaving behind the bitter white pith.
2. Combine the sugar and orange zest in a container, and let this sit in the fridge for 24 hours. The sugar will extract the liquid from the citrus peels and produce a syrupy liquid.
3. Stir the orange juice into the sugar mixture until everything is dissolved. Strain out the solids to yield slightly under ½ cup (120 ml) syrup.
4. To make the finished soda, combine 1 volume of syrup with 3 volumes of carbonated water.

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