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1. Welcome To The Course: hi and welcome to the course. We're gonna be going into the fun and interesting world of making your own soda whether you're interested in taking this class because you just like to create and you want to make something your own or you're looking for a way to maybe say a little bit of money or make something that's all natural, organic or GMO free. I'm excited to take you on this journey and show you how to make soda for yourself at home for, you know, just to enjoy week to week or for maybe a big party, or to give yourself a nonalcoholic, enjoyable, fizzy option. Come on into the course and let's learn how to have some fun making soda.
2. Ginger Soda: to make our ginger. So we're gonna start off meeting 1/2 a cup of sugar, a pinch of salt and one round lemon slice, and this is gonna be a pretty thick lemon slice about the width of a finger. And what I mean by round is your cutting through the entire limit. So it's gonna look like a circle and then again about finger and wit. And then we're gonna need 2.5 to 3 inches of ginger. Were to be taking this ginger and cutting it up into small cubes. Say, 1/4 of an inch ish. Also any 3/4 of a cup of water. Let's talk about some of things that you're gonna need to make soda. In this course, you're gonna need a saucepan or any other kind of rounded bottom pan. You could get away with a small soup pot or something like that, but you're gonna wanna watch it if you have anything that has sharp angles or corners at the edges. The benefit of a saucepan is it's round at the bottom, so you don't really have to worry about scalding if you don't have a saucepan, but you happen. Have a walk. Those also worked perfectly, and you're any a strainer. Just any fine mesh basket strainer will do. It doesn't really matter on the size. It's just your comfort level or what you have on hand in your kitchen. You're gonna need a microwave safe container like a Pyrex measuring cup or anything else that's microwaves. Save you're any a knife in a cutting board? Any size knife, any size cutting board will do, and then you're gonna need a measuring cup, and this is to get the sugar out, and we're gonna need 1/2 a cup of that sugar. So if you have 1/2 cup sugar measuring item, that's great. If not, you know if you needed to quarter cups or whatever, that's perfectly fine, too. Here's everything we need to make our soda and just to run over everything again, we're to start off needing a sauce pot, preferably anything with a smooth round base. We're also gonna need a basket strainer, preferably fine mesh. Then we're gonna be needing about 2 to 3 inches of ginger. Any type of ginger will do, but fresh is the best. Half a cup of sugar a pinch of salt, a knife and a cutting board, 3/4 of a cup of water and one lemon. Now we're gonna be coming up our ginger or lemon, and we're going to start off our lemon. And the first thing you want to do is just trim up the end of your lemon in this park can be discarded. Now, we want a very thick, full, round slice of lemon about a fingers with They were just gonna cut down. And as you can see, it's a very substantial slice of limit. Now we're gonna take our ginger. I'm going to start off by cutting it in half. Then we're gonna lay it out, and we're gonna break it down into smaller pieces about 1/4 of an inch. After you have this cut up, we're gonna move on to our next step. Now we're going to be steeping our limit in our ginger. So here we have our water. Our saucepan are limited in our ginger. We're gonna start off by taking our water and pouring it into the saucepan. To that will be adding our lemon and then our ginger. Once all the ginger is added We're gonna steep this on low for 10 to 20 minutes and you're just looking for a light simmer. Nothing to too strong we're going to need are steeping liquid, a fine mess, trainer basket and then some type of heat safe container. We're just gonna simply strain all the liquid through the fine mesh strainer basket into the heat safe container. You're gonna want to clean this pot because we're gonna be using it for the rest of our process. So just take a little bit extra time and make sure you have everything nice and pristine. Now we're gonna be taking our liquid, are assaulting our sugar and combining them together. Here we have our clean round bottom saucepan. It's very important. It's round bottom that way. There's no scalding opportunities for the sugar. If you don't have a saucepan, any wide pan will do that way. There's a lot of opportunity for condensing and evaporation. Now we're gonna be adding our sugar to the pan first than a very tiny pinch of salt. As you can see here, just the tips of my fingers spread that around and then we're gonna be adding in our liquid . It's not gonna look like this. Liquid will completely cover all of the sugar bunt. Just allow it to rest and kind of mingle with sugar, and then it will slowly dissolve the next time we want do is put this on low heat for 10 to 20 minutes until the sugar is fully dissolved. After the sugar is fully dissolved, we want to take our sauce pot and get a heat safe container. And we're just gonna pour it off into eat safe container for storage. We want to allow this to cool for about 12 hours, or at least overnight. And this is just to make it easier to work with and kind of let some of flavors meld. Next, we're gonna be making our soda. To do this, we're going to need a few very important ingredient, starting with carbonated water. Either your favorite or a sodastream. You're gonna need your sugar syrup, a glass, a spoon to get the sugar syrup into the glass, a spoon for stirring and ice here. Amusing crushed ice. But feel free to use your personal purpose vice to start off, we're gonna take a little bit of our sugar syrup and put into the bottom of our glass. If you want Maurin a stronger flavour, feel free to adjust the recipe and doom, or or, if you want, liner to a little bit less. After placing your desired amount in glass, we're gonna take a little bit of carbonated water and just put into the bottom. And this is just a sacrificial amount of water to help loosen up the sugar syrup. That way it will be easier to stir and it'll mixing better to the final beverage, and this is an extremely important step that shouldn't be skipped. Otherwise, all of your sugar syrup will hanging out the bottom of your soda and not fully combined in with the rest of the carbonated water and make a proper soda. Next, we can go ahead and at our eyes, and yet again. If you were doing this with some type of cubed eyes or slivered eyes, whatever type of ice you like, it's all perfectly fine once you have your desired amount of ice added and this is yet again subjective. If you like a lot of ice like me, put a lot eyes. If you don't like a lot of ice, put less, then we're going to take our carbonated water and very gently added to the glass. Now we're gonna take our spoon very, very slowly and softly insert into the glass and give it a very gentle start. And this is just to make sure that the sugar syrup is fully mixed throughout the glass. You want to be careful not to release the carbonation in this step. After that, enjoy your soda. Now we're gonna make a cocktail with our ginger sugar syrup. To do this, we're gonna need a cocktail glass are ginger sugar syrup, one ounce fresh squeezed lime juice, two ounces of rye whiskey, a shaker and some ice. We're going to start off by grabbing a few spoonfuls of our sugar syrup and placing it into the shaker. It again. This is subjective if you want it sweeter and stronger and more. If you like a little dryer and less, then we're gonna and in our rye whiskey, and this is to help loosen that sugar syrup. That way it will evenly mixed throughout the cocktail. Next we want take a bar spoon and just stir that way. That sugar syrup is fully loosened by the alcohol. After giving the sugar syrup on rye whiskey a good stir there. We're gonna go ahead and add in our eyes. I like to use large ice cubes for this, but feel free to use whatever ice you prefer. Since this is gonna be in a shaker, you can really get away with whatever I she want. I think the large ice cubes do a better job of aeration yet again, This is a lot of personal preference. I also like a lot of ice in my shaker, but feel free to do whatever you think is right for your type of shaker. Then we're gonna go ahead and in our fresh squeezed lime juice and I can't stress this enough. Fresh squeezed is the way to go. Then we're gonna lit up our shaker, get a good seal on it and aggressively shake this drink. After giving it a thorough shake, we're gonna clean up our work area, get our cocktail glass at the ready, get our shaker opened up and then strain into our waiting glass it after we finish training . Then enjoy your cocktail. I hope you enjoyed the course and found this a fun and rewarding activity to show you how you can either a save some money, not going to the grocery store or the supermarket buying soda or be you know, you can just enjoy the creativity and the personal fund that comes from making something yourself and doing that d I y. Style stuff. I hope that you pull this great sort of making knowledge out at your next party or family event or holiday occasion or whatever it may be. But my wife and I truly enjoyed making these classes, and we're very thankful that you take the time out of your day to learn from us and be our students and attend our classes. So from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. And I hope you truly enjoyed everything and I can't we'd see in the next class
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