How to make your own Coca-Cola
What I'm going to tell you could very well put your life in danger... the Coca-Cola recipe is one of the most prized - and therefore, dangerous - secrets in the world. Who knows what kind of soft-drink assassins might show up at your door in the wee hours of the night?
How to make your own Coca-Cola
The actual secret ingredient is called "Merchandise 7X", but we all know the rest of the stuff: caramel, caffeine, cinnamon, kola nut, coca leaves.
According to Wikipedia, the coca extract is from spent coca leaves, under the watch of the DEA, so there's no actual cocaine in Coca-Cola, though there used to be. The company still refuses to comment on the trace amounts of cocaine that might be present in the drink. Good, eh?
From a note by the founder of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton:
It's not easy, as this post reports, following the adventures of restauranteurs that wanted to mimic the flavour without paying into The Man With The Bottle.
For detailed instructions on how to make your own Coca-Cola, read the bottom of the post.
How to make your own Coca-Cola
The actual secret ingredient is called "Merchandise 7X", but we all know the rest of the stuff: caramel, caffeine, cinnamon, kola nut, coca leaves.
According to Wikipedia, the coca extract is from spent coca leaves, under the watch of the DEA, so there's no actual cocaine in Coca-Cola, though there used to be. The company still refuses to comment on the trace amounts of cocaine that might be present in the drink. Good, eh?
From a note by the founder of Coca-Cola, John Pemberton:
" * Ingredients:
o 1 oz caffeine citrate
o 3 oz citric acid
o 1 fl oz extract vanilla
o 1 qt lime juice
o 2˝ oz flavoring
o 30 lb (14 kg) sugar
o 4 fl oz fluid extract of coca (decocainized flavor essence of the coca leaf)
o 2˝ gal water
o Caramel sufficient
* Flavoring:
o 80 Oil orange
o 40 Oil cinnamon
o 120 Oil lemon
o 20 Oil coriander
o 40 Oil nutmeg
o 40 Oil neroli
o 1 qt alcohol
Directions:
*
o "Mix caffeine acid and lime juice in 1 quart boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours."
This recipe does not specify when sugar, coca, caramel or the rest of the water are added."
o 1 oz caffeine citrate
o 3 oz citric acid
o 1 fl oz extract vanilla
o 1 qt lime juice
o 2˝ oz flavoring
o 30 lb (14 kg) sugar
o 4 fl oz fluid extract of coca (decocainized flavor essence of the coca leaf)
o 2˝ gal water
o Caramel sufficient
* Flavoring:
o 80 Oil orange
o 40 Oil cinnamon
o 120 Oil lemon
o 20 Oil coriander
o 40 Oil nutmeg
o 40 Oil neroli
o 1 qt alcohol
Directions:
*
o "Mix caffeine acid and lime juice in 1 quart boiling water add vanilla and flavoring when cool. Let stand for 24 hours."
This recipe does not specify when sugar, coca, caramel or the rest of the water are added."
It's not easy, as this post reports, following the adventures of restauranteurs that wanted to mimic the flavour without paying into The Man With The Bottle.
"But turning the recipe into a palatable drink turned out to be more difficult than it looked. "The oils we had to import from the US," says Rich. "The caramel had to be sourced direct from DD Williamson, a large operation based in Manchester which actually provides the caramel for all the Coca-Cola manufactured in the UK. And the caffeine we found at MyProtein.co.uk, a body-building website.""
For detailed instructions on how to make your own Coca-Cola, read the bottom of the post.
