John Stith Pemberton, became a morphine addict following an injury he received during the Civil War. His drink included fluid extract of coca, caffeine packed kola nuts, and sugar to mask their bitter taste. Pemberton began selling Coca-Cola in and contained fluid extract of coca until although its removal was much more complicated than the substance becoming illegal. It did not become illegal until Coca leaves are available to order online, with some of the sites offering the option to purchase by phone.
Ordering coca via a cell phone? That does not seem like the best idea. After doing some research, it seems coca leaves are completely illegal. Plus, the flavor is unaffected by the omission and the language used in the instructions to make it are mildly confusing. Make sure they are food grade since other kinds are not for ingestion. Extracts are much stronger than they were when the recipe was invented. Only a small amount is required. These oils are thoroughly blended with pure ethanol alcohol, which acts as an emulsifier.
Pure alcohol can be difficult to find, so a high quality alcohol such as vodka can substitute. Next, part of the sugar is used to make caramel. David Lebovitz has some useful instructions on how to make the perfect caramel. The remaining sugar is mixed with water, cooked over a stove in the same way that you would make a simple syrup--brought to a boil then simmered over medium low heat for about three minutes.
Combine the sugar syrup with the caramel. Then, the sugar syrup-caramel mixture is combined with a few other ingredients, including lime juice and vanilla. The recipe still needs an extra kick to it.
A website, Thisamericanlife. Share Via. Get our Daily News Capsule Subscribe. Thank you for subscribing to our Daily News Capsule newsletter. Whatsapp Twitter Facebook Linkedin. Sign Up. This ingredient, we'll be frank, will be kind of a pain in the ass to find. These will make you sick.
You need food grade ethyl alcohol. Sometimes people swap Everclear or other neutral grain spirits for this, and our beverage guys suggest this as an easy, cheap substitute. Buy whole leaf coca tea. Instructions for making coca extract from this can be found online. You don't need much. Once you have your 7X flavor, and your fluid extract of coca, you are ready to mix them with your other ingredients to make the syrup.
Mix your ingredients in this order: water, sugar, then coloring, then coca extract, then vanilla extract, then caffeine, then lime juice and citric acid. We all got a strong buzz from the soda we made with the recipe, and then one of the beverage professionals pointed out that it was because it had five times the amount of caffeine of a modern soda. The team at Sovereign Flavors says if an ingredient is liquid -- coca extract or vanilla extract -- it should be measured in fluid ounces. If it's a dry ingredient, like citric acid, it should be measured by weight.
Once you have mixed the syrup, it should be combined with carbonated water at a ratio of 1-to-5 one part syrup to five parts bubbly water to make the soda. Legal language we have to include here: If you're making this soda, it's entirely at your own risk. The soda companies and radio stations involved in this story make no claims about the safety of this old recipe.
Here's the press release we put out about this story. This episode of our show kicked off a wave of international press coverage that, inevitably, included inaccuracies. To be clear: We are not claiming that we have found the recipe used today for Coca-Cola. We believe we found a recipe that is either the original recipe made by the inventor of Coke, John Pemberton, or a version of Coca-Cola that he made either before or after the product hit the market in We believe that because it was found in the notebook of his friend, on a page entitled "Coco-Cola recipe improved," and because it was found in Pemberton's own notebook, in Coca-Cola's archives.
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