How to Make Italian Soft Drinks (3 Steps)
Traditional Italian sodas are handcrafted soft drinks, easy to make at home and customize to your personal tastes. This classic soda fountain drink combines flavored syrups with sparkling water or club soda poured over ice, which is sometimes topped with a dollop of heavy cream. Italian sodas have their origins in 1925 San Francisco, when two Italian-American immigrants started mixing their own flavored syrups with club soda. They later founded the flavored syrup company Torani. Find the syrup flavors primarily in specialty food stores and online retailers.
Things You'll Need
- Tall glasses
- Ice
- Flavored syrups
- Club soda or soda water
- Heavy cream, optional
- Whipped cream, optional
- Decorative straws
Instructions
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Fill tall drinking glasses at least halfway with crushed ice. Use glasses that hold at least 8 ounces of liquid.
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Add 2 or 3 pumps of flavored syrup to the glass. One pump is about 1 ounce of flavored syrup. Use any flavor of syrup you prefer, or combine two or more flavors, if you like.
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Fill each glass with club soda or sparkling water. Top with heavy cream, if desired. You can also add a dollop of whipped cream. Stir and enjoy with a straw.
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