Recipe for Home Made SURGE
The following was published in Issue #22
of SaveSURGE News and brought lots of questions. Therefore, we're
posting it here for all lovers of SURGE to see (and try)!
There has been a recipe for making your own SURGE
circulating through the web for quite some time. Recently Ed wrote
in to share his experiences in attempting to make his own Fully
Loaded fun:
The recipe he liked the most was:
10 6.75 oz. squeezie thingies of Orange Tangergreen
Hi-C
1 liter of Club Soda Water
1 cup of sugar
*The original recipe called for Hi-C Ecto Cooler,
which came out many years ago as a promotion for the Ghostbusters
movies. It has since been renamed Orange Tangergreen.
Ed also had this to say about his homemade SURGE:
"With a ten pack of the Orange Tangergreen
Hi-C mixed with a liter or so of the club soda water, you have about
three liters. For each liter of your final concoction, you need
1/3 cup of sugar. So, with three liters of the juice, use a full
cup of sugar and stir it. If you put in the caffeine pills, stir
it up *real* good, and let it sit for maybe an hour or so.
The main problem with the concoction is not the taste, which is
*VERY* close, which is all I care about... it's the carbonation.
We need super carbonated soda water to give it maximum soda feel,
but this concoction is VERY close."
While I have not personally tried this one yet,
I must say that I think the recipe makes sense. Hi-C is in fact
a division of Minute Maid, which is owned by Coca-Cola. It would
seem quite possible to achieve a close match.
One suggestion for the carbonation problem might
be to replace the club soda with carbonated water made with a Soda
Siphon. They are relatively cheap and are available at:
http://www.popsoda.com/sodastuff.html
However, I would recommend that you try the recipe
WITH the club soda first and then decide if you want to spend money
on a Siphon.
A BIG thank you goes out to Ed for sending us
the results of his hard work and experimenting!
Also make sure to try Danielle's
SURGE Recipe.
If you try this recipe and it works well for
you, please let us know at surge@savesurge.org
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