How to Make Soft Drinks

Old-fashioned soft drinks are not only a trip down memory lane, they're fun and easy to make, too. Back in our grandparents' day, soda jerks mixed soft drinks by hand behind counters at drug stores. Homemade soft drinks are perfect for parties and healthier than store-bought drinks as well. Read on for some ideas. Add this to my Recipe Box.

Instructions

Enjoy an Egg Cream Drink

1

Chill chocolate syrup and club soda (plain soda) until they're very cold.

2

Squirt a few tablespoons of well-chilled chocolate syrup into a tall glass.

3

Pour about a cup of milk very slowly over the chocolate syrup.

4

Add cold soda to the glass with a seltzer bottle. Alternatively, pour the soda into the middle of the glass so that it generates as much fizz as possible.

5

Stir the mixture slowly and carefully with a long-handled spoon. Try not to disturb the foam at the top of the glass.

6

Drink your egg cream soft drink directly from the glass, not through a straw.

Make a Mont Blanc

7

Fill a tall glass full of club soda (plain soda).

8

Add about an ounce of strawberry syrup, then half as much orange syrup and vanilla syrup. Pour about a quarter of a glass full of ice into the glass.

9

Pour about half an ounce of grape juice into the glass. Mix the contents of the glass well, then top your Mont Blanc with whipped cream.

Mix Up a Malt

10

Blend a few scoops of ice cream with a similarly flavored syrup (strawberry ice cream and strawberry syrup, for instance) and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

11

Add enough milk to make your malt the consistency you like.

12

Stir in a few tablespoons of malt powder.