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Israeli soda type drink
What you're describing sounds like jallab. From Will Travel For Food:
Jallab is a very popular drink in the Middle East. It’s made by diluting the syrup made of grape molasses, dates and rose water ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
Apple juice is good with pork. The frozen cans of concentrate are cheap and perfect for this use.
Apple juice lacks the dark notes of cola. To get those I propose you add hoisin sauce. It is very ...
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Israeli soda type drink
That's most likely Jallab though not a quintessential Israeli drink it is part of the middle eastern cuisine.
Jallab (Arabic: جلاب / ALA-LC: jallāb) is a type of fruit syrup popular in the Middle ...
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Letting batter with baking soda wait before adding into the oven
I doubt the raw batter will survive 35-70 minutes out of the oven.
Many times when I made homemade cake, things like
forgetting to preheat the oven
taking too long to scrape all the batter into the ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
The main function that soda adds in these recipes is as a flavored syrup that also has an acid. So make your own. Add your preferred sweetener to water with some form of acidulation (I prefer apple ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
I learned a recipe for a chicken dish from my mother. Her recipe also called for cola to create a sticky and caramelised sauce.
She taught me, however, that the cola could be replaced with fruit ...
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Letting batter with baking soda wait before adding into the oven
The last layer will likely be pretty flat, especially if you're using a recipe with whisked eggs for some structure. Any air bubbles and structure you whisk into the eggs will be gone by the time it's ...
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Why does my soda fizz so much when making an ice cream float?
When carbonated root beer comes into contact with the ice cream, carbon dioxide bubbles are released. Likewise, the soda helps to free air bubbles trapped in the ice cream. The fat in the ice cream ...
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How to store Soda Water or other Home Made Sodas?
More sodastream bottles is the best option if you are starting from a sodastream.
The best other alternative is to act just like a really old-fashioned soda counter.
Mix and store your syrups/...
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Sodastream loses carbonation when adding syrup
The solubility of carbon dioxide in water is a function of several factors. The most important are time, temperature, pressure, and composition.
In order to maximize your carbonation, ensure ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
The flavors in Coke are cinnamon, vanilla, and citrus. I personally taste cinnamon the most. Dr. Pepper has a lot of other spice and berry flavors, and is similar to root beer. You could try to ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
What about something like Hansen's? It's available at the local store here in Nowheresville, MN population ~7k so it shouldn't be too hard to find.
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How can I replicate the flavor of Mountain Dew?
OK, this is dangerously close to a recipe request, but far enough away that I feel OK to answer.
Use the rule of two.
2 cups of sugar
2 two oranges
2 limes
2 lemons
Juice and zest the whole ...
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Why does my ice cream get crispy in my float?
I think I know what you mean, but is the ice cream "crispy" only on the surface? Unless your ice cream becomes crispy in its interior as well, (which I could not explain), I think it's simply as you ...
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Why can soda be used as a substitute for eggs when using a boxed cake mix?
I have developed an intolerance to eggs and sought some advice from a vegan Indian family I know. They have always used soda in their cakes. Since they've never had a cake made with eggs they admitted ...
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Are N2O and CO2 chargers interchangeable for culinary purposes?
Nitrogen and probably N2O don't dissolve well in water so that wont work. CO2 dissolves well + forms a weak acid that converts back to CO2 as the CO2 is released from the water. That is why almost all ...
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Soda carbonation
If you follow the process, the yeast are not cold-tolerant strains and shut down for most intents and purposes when the bottles are chilled. Plastic soda bottles also take a LOT of pressure to burst, ...
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Cooking rhubarb with soda
The whole quote is
Cooking the leaves with soda can make them more poisonous by producing soluble oxalates
I can't tell you if the claim as a whole is true. But if it is true for the leaves, it ...
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Can I make fermented lemon soda using yogurt cultures?
Soda-like drinks have traditionally been made in the same way as beer, but with less fermentation to keep the alcohol content low. Without alcohol, (and with a bunch of protein and fat around from the ...
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How can I replicate the flavor of Mountain Dew?
I definitely taste Grapefruit, but I suspect there is a bit of Mango as well as the Lime and Lemon. I think the Mango might be what adds a bit of the candy like flavor to it (asides from the sugar).
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Why can soda be used as a substitute for eggs when using a boxed cake mix?
Cake recipes that heavily use syrup (especially inverted syrup/honey due to its non-crystallizing, moisture-keeping properties) and can work well without eggs are not uncommon (several types of ...
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What's wrong with my iSi soda siphon, and how do I fix it?
I'm fairly sure that you should be able to get a "rebuild kit" with all the rubber parts (and perhaps a few others.) Due to the wonders of modern commerce, it's anybody's guess as to whether you might ...
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Which type of charger for soda syphon batter
Many batters made in a soda syphon/whipper that I have seen, and used myself, use CO2. This is common when the goal is aeration. Though, I have also seen N2O used.
A description of what you are ...
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Scaled down batch of soda syphon batter
Generally with a 1L siphon it’s advised to use 2 or 3 charges. If you scale down your ingredients, you’ll create a much larger gap in the canister, this would mean you’d have to use even more charges ...
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What can I substitute for soda pop in a sweet pork recipe?
Depending on how much time you have, how often you would like to use this (or similar) recipes, how much you like the idea(s), and how involved you want to get... you could try making a cola syrup ...
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Sodastream loses carbonation when adding syrup
Tried an experiment today to make sure I liked their flavours before taking a plunge for the machine.
Sealed 2 litre bottle of Walmart Club Soda left in fridge overnight. Poured 500ml into a glass. ...
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Baking Powder, Baking Soda, and Yeast
The buttermilk is acidic enough that it interferes with the environment that commercial yeast needs to reproduce well
I don't think this is the case. Yeast prefers a mildly to moderately acidic ...
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How should soda made with "ginger bug" smell/taste?
if it tasted extra 'yeasty' you're probably just fermenting too far. try starting with less of the bug per liter of liquid, and stop the fermentation sooner.
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Sodastream loses carbonation when adding syrup
I am a soda stream expert because I have made thousands of sodas in it. You need to have the water cold first off. I add a few ice cubes to my water before putting it into the soda stream for ...
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How to store Soda Water or other Home Made Sodas?
Carbonated liquids lose their carbonation very quickly when at room temperature, when agitated, and when pushed through small orifices at room pressure.
You can't change the "small orifices" part due ...
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