Please disregard my recipe last year about homemade root beer. Unless you are serving it just to a bunch of kids. If any adults are involved, use this recipe please.
My husband was on the hunt for dry ice and ran into a friend of mine on the same quest on the morning of Halloween this year. I think I shall be running all my recipes by her from now on. She seems to have the gift of taking ordinary recipes and "taking it to the next level" without much thought. Things like "You know what might be fun to try? If you dipped these in chocolate. Just the bottoms. Like Peppridge Farms." Genius, I tell you.
So John runs into her, and she starts giving him suggestions to improve on the basic recipe. Like to make a sugar syrup by bringing to boil equal parts sugar and water, and splitting and scraping a vanilla bean and adding it to the boiling water. Also instead of 6 cups white sugar, use half white sugar, half dark brown sugar.
Needless to say, it was a total success this year. The folks sucked it down faster than I could believe possible.
Here's this years new and improved recipe.
Homemade Rootbeer 2.0
Several hours before the big event-
Bring to boil -
6 cups water
3 cups white sugar
3 cups dark brown sugar
1 vanilla bean, cut in half lengthwise and scraped.
Let cool.
One hour before -
In large 5 gallon drink cooler combine combine syrup (remove vanilla bean) and add water to 3 1/2 gallon mark.
Add AT LEAST one bottle of root beer concentrate. I used two. Stir well. Add brick of dry ice and let it work it's magic.
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3 comments:
Sounds delicious. Does your friend have a blog? I'd like to take my recipes to the next level.
She does not, unfortunately. She tried a regular blog, posting vacation pics and what-not, but that was pretty short lived. I think she'd rather spend her time in the kitchen than on the computer. But I'd be happy to run any ideas past her if you wanted.
Oh Homemade Rootbeer, yum!! My little brother was always an adventurer/mad scientist and made root beer one time... It was pretty good but he said it had to ferment for a while. He put it in 2 liter bottles in the basement on the counter below our kitchen. One night at dinner about a month later we all jumped out of our seats when we heard a loud BOOM! from below!!! HA! One of the bottles had exploded and was EVERYWHERE! All over the couch, kitchen, my dad's office, the ceiling, pooled in the basement stove top burners... Brown speckles stained the walls and ceiling for years till my parents repainted! HAAA! Ah, root beer!
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