[Coca-Cola Syrup] Coke's Secret Recipe
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- Опубликовано: 30 окт 2024
- See how to make the original Coca-Cola recipe, published by NPR in 2011, This is a slight combination of both John Pemberton and R.R. Evans recipes.
1886 COCA-COLA RECIPE:
•••••••Syrup Recipe•••••••
• 2.4 lbs (1.1 kg) White Sugar
• 2 tsp (10 g) Citric Acid
• 26 oz (770 mLs) Hot Water
• 1/3 oz (10 mLs) Lime Juice
• 800 mg Caffeine
• 1 oz (30 mLs) Caramel Coloring
[DISCLAIMER] I am listing the Coca extract for historical purposes ONLY. Obviously cocaine is an illegal substance for personal use and should not be added to the drink
• 5.5 oz (160 mLs) coca fluid extract
• 30 Drops (1.5 mLs) 7x Coca-Cola Flavor
• 0.5 - 1 tsp (3 - 5 mLs) Vanilla Extract
•••••••7x Coca-Cola Flavor•••••••
• 8 oz (240 mLs) High Proof Neutral Spirit
• 20 Drops (1 mL) Orange Oil
• 30 Drops (1.5 mLs) Lemon Oil
• 10 Drops (0.5 mL) Nutmeg Oil
• 10 Drops (0.5 mL) Coriander Oil
• 10 Drops (0.5 mL) Cinnamon Oil
• 10 Drops (0.5 mL) Neroli Oil
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1). Combine white sugar, citric acid, hot water, lime juice, caffeine, and caramel coloring in a large heat resistant mixing bowl. [DISCLAIMER] I am listing the Coca extract for historical purposes ONLY. Obviously cocaine is an illegal substance for personal use and should not be added to the drink.
2). In a glass jar combine a high proof neutral spirit, orange oil, lemon oil, nutmeg oil, coriander oil, cinnamon oil, and neroli oil. Swizzle or mix quickly with a wire whisk.
3). Add 30 Drops (1.5 mLs) of 7x coca-cola flavor to the syrup.
4). Add 0.5 - 1 tsp (3 - 5 mLs) vanilla extract to the syrup.
5). To make a drink combine 2 oz (60 mLs) Coca-Cola Syrup with 10 oz (300 mLs) Soda Water.
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Wheres the other white powder
I snorted it all. Jk
Seriously dude? There was no white powder in there. It was a syrup. What do you want everybody to draw you a picture on how it really was?
@@timmytee5335 i want my cocaine
Miami 🤣
We don’t talk about that
Love the way u made it ,with clear instructions
Thank you. My goal was to present the video in a way that made it easy for others to replicate.
You had me with the cocaine part. I was thinking I'd have to call some old high school friends
now what am i supposed to with the unused ingredients?
They actually used coca leaf. Not actual cocaine. They still do technically, but it's extracted for "medical purposes".
Coca-Cola’s history has been well-documented. The drink was invented in 1885 by John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia, who made the original formula in his backyard. Pemberton’s recipe contained cocaine in the form of an extract of the coca leaf, which inspired the “Coca” part of the beverage’s name. The “Cola” comes from the kola nut (which contains caffeine, another stimulant).
And before becoming Coca-Cola, that beverage was called Pemberton's French Wine Coca.
@@hermes3386it was straight up wine + actual cocaine before he had that coca-cola recipe
@@rickrollrizal No, it was already sort of a cocktail. Let's read the full recipe on the "Vintage American Cocktails" official site, paper named "French Wine Coca - Predacesor to Coca-Cola" (June 28, 2023). There you will find two photos of Pemberton's work, one for the French Wine and one for the Coke. Have fun, my friend !
All that stimulation has destroyed my teeth and given me diabetes
the amount of sugar is staggering!
Right. Can you imagine just drinking that whole pitcher of syrup straight? That would be wild!
Sugars a neurotoxin
@@asmrstormymoonthats why theres citric acid To keep you from puking cause its so sweet
@@ragheadand420roll we need some better alternatives. Its not really a drink so much as a spiritual pesticide that calcifies people's 3rd eye
Absolutely 💯
My grandpa was addicted to the original recipe! 😵💫😵💫😵💫
Franklin Garrett the historian for CocaCola was a high school friend of my mother and father and used to visit our house often. He and my father called coke "dope" because of the cocaine content it once had. As I remember it did contain kola nuts. The Coke that we drank in the 1950's tasted nothing like the Coke of today. It was refreshing and actually made you feel better. The syrup was sold by druggists as medicine for sick babies.
The taste of Coke changed in the early 80s. It used to be so very good! I can't drink it now.
This is great, thank you! l would love to see a video like this for Dr Pepper. 😊
I do want to make Dr. pepper. I’ve been doing research on it but it’s a tough one. As soon as I figure it out I will make a video of it
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Looking forward to it. Thank you!!
Yuck! 🤮No thanks.
@@kurmet24You do you, I quite like it
Forrest Gump has entered the chat.
Such a beautiful, perfect video, of rare info.❤🎉
Waltz of the Blue Danube is playing.
You know how Stairway To Heaven is overplayed? Blue Danube too.
@@rickwilliams967 Nowdays it reeks of sewage.
I think coca cola has you on a watch list now
Well they better not be watching me during 4-5. That’s Willie time!
Coke syrup used to be common "medicine" for upset tummies. I gave it to my kids. Always worked.
My grandmother used to do that too and it makes sense. Coca leaf is used as an anti nausea medication in Bolivia and the other countries where the plant grows. Coca Cola still has coca leaf in it, but the cocaine is chemically removed. Thank you!
Now I understand why my Granny said it tastes like medicine….because it once was.
Isn’t it amazing. The origins of most alcohols and sodas was as medicines. Absinthe was tapeworm medication, gin was kidney medicine, sour cocktails were used for scurvy as the alcohol preserved the citrus juices on long voyages. Pharmacist like to use Chocolate for opioids because it masked the bitter flavor very well, 7up was originally a mood stabilizer since it was made with lithium water. Sarsaparilla was a kidney/inflammation/fever medicine. The list goes on and on. You should see my French coca wine video. It was the predecessor Coca Cola and It was loaded!
ruclips.net/video/ZAPaacQiw4w/видео.htmlsi=U5yX-eEjVc1xkQ_J
Must cost an fortune for all the different small ingredients
My full article on this cocktail recipe and its history can be found here: vintageamericancocktails.com/coca-cola-recipe/
The recipe this is from can be found on NPR here: www.thisamericanlife.org/427/original-recipe
Neroli oil can be substituted with 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) orange blossom water added directly to the final syrup while the vanilla extract is added. Neroli oil is expensive and not easy to find, whereas orange blossom is cheap, easy to find, and has the same flavor.
But, neroli and orange blossom taste and smell totally different from each other. They're distilled differently - neroli is solvent and orange blossom is steam. One is not a substitute for the other - especially orange blossom water - the weakest version of all the odorant/flavorings. Neroli is lighter, sweeter, delicate and candy-like compared to the flowery, powdery orange blossom.
great video! is there a substitute for alcohol for those who don't consume it?
Doterra sells Neroli oil.
Every now and then when I take a slug of Coca Cola when my palette is clear I can detect the nutmeg.
I never would have guessed but now that I know what’s in it I can taste it.
Such a great way to make your own coke ❤❤❤❤
It’s really cool how it tastes exactly like coke. If I were going to make this regularly and not just for a video I would substitute the neroli for 1 tbsp of orange flower water added directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract is. The neroli is wildly expensive.
Epic. I know it is not very healthy, but i like it.
I would love to taste the original.
That’s how I feel. If I want healthy I’ll just drink water, but a coke every now and then is nice.
Thats why I made this. Npr published the original recipe after someone found the inventors notebook in someone’s attic. I was curious to make it and see what it tasted like and you know what? It tastes exactly like Mexican coke. The flavor hasn’t changed. I left it out of this video for obvious reasons but coca leaf extract is a big part of cokes flavor and makes up 7% of the syrup.
Yeah, I`m all set. You drink it.
Came to the comments section see if anyone had tried this and all I see are bad jokes about cocaine
Yeah that’s about right. I mostly ignore those comments now. So I did get one comment a while back from someone who said they followed the recipe exactly and she gave it a 6 out of 10 on closeness to coke and I agreed. This was one of the first sodas I ever made and after a few years of experimenting I have the proportions spot on now. This recipe needed more flavor base. It was close but not close enough. I found that 1.5 ml of a 5% flavor solution (which is what the 7x is) for every 1kg of syrup is perfect. Also coca leaf extract is a HUGE part of cokes flavor. Now I have never tried it but others who have and know what it tastes like have told me that it is the primary flavor of coke. It has a slightly bitter herbal green tea like flavor and once you try it you can totally recognize it in coke. My recipe lacked that too for obvious reasons. But it tastes similar to Yerba mate and a little bay leaf. And this recipe lacked acid phosphate. I recently redid this recipe with what I know now and it’s almost exactly like coke. I made sure to add acid phosphate, increase the flavoring by 1/2 an ml, and add imitation coca leaf extract. I feel they must have reduced the coca leaf extract at some point in the past because this older recipe has a stronger coca leaf flavor than today’s but still, it’s almost exactly the same. If you reduced the coca leaf extract it is 100% the same. Here is the link to it. I hope this answer satisfied your curiosity.
ruclips.net/video/frHJXfGnE3s/видео.htmlsi=Ggt4p331FkAO33k6
@@VintageAmericanCocktails yes thank you, that was a great feedback. I wouldn’t mind trying this out but I know the flavor extract mixture would probably take me 100 years to use all the way so I didn’t know if I wanted to put in the effort or not.
@@DrEnginerd1 I made this video 2 years ago and I still have that stuff sitting in a jar. It was fun to do but if you don’t plan on making 20,000 cokes or something like that then it’s not really practical.
If you're ever in Peru, coca tea is legal. It's actually quite nice, with a bitter floral flavor and leaves a tingling and numb sensation on the tongue for a couple minutes after. Not really psychoactive in that kind of quantity though
yeah everyone thinks chewing a coca leaf and cocaine are the same but its not. It's too bad that people take things too far. Ruins it for the rest of us.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In fairness, there is cocaine in there, so I get not allowing imports of large quantities :) But it'd be really nice to be able to taste that tea again without having to travel halfway around the world
You had me at 2:06, you lost me at 2:09
Bro we need the original way fr
yeah fr fr i need cocain in my coca cola its kinda boring without it
heres an idea, keep the sugar and the cocain, boom. successful drink
@@N3WC0M3R5 facts tbh 🤦♂
Try using brown sugar, just extracts and herbs and some coca instead of coffein(in peru you can do it) and this is the original and best taste I assume.
I’m sure it is. I wish it was easier to make the syrup in smaller volumes to experiment with slightly different ingredients.
Hi! Thanks so much for this video! Where did you get all of the oils from? Are they cooking/flavoring oils or purified essentials oils?
Thank you! I'm glad you liked it. These are essential oils, and they were very easy to buy online. As long as the oils are listed as 100% pure, they are generally safe to consume once diluted down to a reasonable level. The only concern would be if they were initially extracted by solvents, but every spice in this heats well, so I imagine they are all done by steam distillation. The only difficult one to buy is neroli oil (Orange flower oil) since most of it goes into perfume manufacturing. But orange flower water works well since it's the by-product of manufacturing pure oil and contains 0.5 to 1% neroli oil in it. The recipe calls for 0.5 mLs of pure oil into the flavor base, and in the end, the entire syrup only has 0.0036g of neroli oil. I did the math a while back, and that works out to 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange flower water added directly to the final syrup (at the same time you add the vanilla extract) instead of adding the pure neroli oil to the flavor base. Enjoy!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you so much for your response! Excited to try this out!!
I am looking for your recipe over 5 years
I’m glad I could help you!
Coca Cola is a hell of a drink
“Now I didn’t just do things to do things. Why would I just go jumpin up and down and grindin’ my dirty feet into someone’s couch, I got more sense than that… yeah I remember grinding my feet into their couch.”
@@VintageAmericanCocktails❤and excellent vid
Rick James!
Finally! I feel like I can make cola! Absolutely fantastic video…thank you!
You’re welcome! If you find the cola flavor is too light just add a little bit more of the flavoring. I thought it was spot on but my wife felt it needed more flavoring. Glad you liked it.
Ok. As for the oils, I assume I have to look for “food grade.”?
@@mariejones1415 It's easy and cheap to find 100% pure natural oils for all ingredients except for the neroli. Pure neroli is very expensive, but you could substitute 1.5 tsp of orange blossom water into the final syrup. Orange blossom water usually has 10 - 15 drops of neroli oil per liter; this recipe makes 24 drinks, so each drink only has around .0036 g of neroli oil in the end. If you add 1.5 tsp (7.5 mLs) of orange blossom water directly to the final syrup, just like the vanilla extract is added, then you should end up with around .0045 g of neroli oil per drink. Orange blossom water is easy to get online, food grade, and only a few bucks. Glad you asked. I will update my site and pinned comment to include this.
I don’t really know why I’m here, but: hey! Very interesting video and chill vibes instructions.
Nicely done. Now, where’s my Coke?
I don’t know what I’m doing or where I am most of the time, so join the club. Glad you liked it! Here you go🥤
Not Just Kidding. The original recipe did have cocaine in the original mix. I wish I could go back in time and sample the real original. The cocaine and all. It probably gave your mouth a numb feeling.
Oh yeah. I bet a lot of people have that same wish. I provided the correct amount of coca leaf extract that was added in the video but I live in the United States so no way I’m going to add that. Get the DEA knocking on my door.
Tell them that you're a Democrat.
They'll apologize, and go away.
This is amazing to see! Thanks - great!
Glad you like it!
Thank you for this recipe and history lesson!
Of course! This was a super fun one to make and I learned a ton about using oils for flavor. I go into more information on my website which I think I have pinned in the comments. Glad you liked it! Enjoy!
Omg, it's so amazing. it tests exactly like Coke. I will never buy coke again. Thank you for the recipe.
What brands of oils did you use for the flavor?
I don’t remember but the important thing is that they are steam distilled. You don’t really want to drink chemically extracted oils. A lot of these can be found on baking websites for baked goods flavoring. Also there is no such thing as Food grade anymore and it’s for the most part a defunct term now. What you are looking for is what the fda calls GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and that has more to do with concentration of a specific item. For example drinking straight lemon essential oil is not safe but lemon oil diluted down to a comparable level as eating a normal lemon peel is. Same oil, different concentrations. Another example. All almonds have cyanide in them since they are part of the rosaceae family, but normal sweet store bought have such trace amounts that you couldn’t eat enough to be poisoned. And eating these almonds is generally regarded as safe. There are some varieties of almonds that have incredible amounts of cyanide in them and even a few can cause death. Eating these varieties is not generally regarded as safe. I went off the rails a bit here but I don’t remember the brands lol. Just make sure they are steam distilled and diluted to a normal level and it should be fine.
I very rarely have a sensitive stomach, but a very large helping of marcona almonds made me sick @VintageAmericanCocktails
I think there is a general consensus that the whole internet wants to see the REAL recipe 😂
It is! That’s 95% of the comments I get on this video. No way in the world I will do that though. I don’t need the FBI knocking on my door. “So sir you filmed a video of yourself processing coca leaves and posted it to RUclips.” I know this isn’t real coca leaves but I made a new video making imitation coca leaf extract that tastes almost the exact same as a real normal coke you would buy at the store.
ruclips.net/video/3nLz2cQ96sM/видео.htmlsi=vuEfcCG4IREyvng7
That looks less complicated than I thought.
How much can I reduce the sugar content in the syrup without reducing the shelf life? I love the taste of cola, but what always bothered me about cola was the excessive sweetness...
I asked my local drug pusher about fluid cocaine extract and he just shaked his head about my wish. He can just get this white powder…
Lol I don’t know about the cocaine part or how street drugs equate to what they were using back then but many old pharmacy books from the 1800s have these recipes and they freely available on google books. books.google.com/books?id=WxwaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA27&dq=fluid+extract+of+cocaine&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjeh4f7iM_9AhV3hu4BHc6BDmQQ6wF6BAgCEAU#v=onepage&q=cocaine&f=false
As far as the sugar part goes try 1.8 lbs of sugar instead of 2.4. This should make for 30g of sugar per drink instead of 40g. Hope that helps!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Sounds good. Will skip the cocain part anyway… ;)
Ah, the coriander, the caramel, the caffeine… the cocaine!!!
Excellent video; thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello, I have followed the video meticulously; I have therefore encountered few issues:
-smell test had failed: comparing it with the actual Coca Cola, I can certainly smell the oils and it’s other ingredients but not that Coca-Cola characteristic smell
-taste is also quite different, lovely drink but nowhere near a Coca-Cola.
It definitely misses something, that something that is so characteristic and essential.
I’d say 5.5 out of ten in similarity; definitely a citrous drink, but would love to actually replicate that sort of flavour, I’m fed up with chemicals etc and wish to drink safer options.
What would you suggest me to do? Please take my comment as a constructive criticism, I am not in any way trying to mess things up :)
lol no thank you! And I agree. I made this video a bit ago and I may remake it. since I made this video I learned how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that I know what it taste like its flavor is overwhelming in Coca Cola. That smell and taste you say is missing is coca leaf extract. I show how to make it in my French wine coca video.
Thank you for trying this. It makes me really happy that you made it. I’m a bit embarrassed by this video because I’ve become much better at making old fashion sodas and also know how to make coca leaf extract so I see all the mistakes. Add the 5.5 oz coca leaf extract and it will be much closer to what you want to make. Again it’s in my French wine coca video and the ratio is 2/3 Yerba mate to 1/3 bay leaf. I recently made the 1876 U.S.A. centennial worlds fair root beer and it’s amazing. That is next on my list!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails ahah thanks for that :) I can see the extracts have been of course performed using alcohol; can I use some bay leaf and Yerba mate extracts directly? Also have read some threads about kola nut, for smell but not for flavour. Or is the extract just enough to get that flavour and smell?
@@VintageAmericanCocktails following up my previous comment, you can get decocanised coca leaf even in us, uk and Australia, maybe this helps you anyhow. Also, kola nut was replaced by other artificial ingredients to substitute the kola nut. I’ll be trying to combine the two and let you know :)
This is crazy awesome .
@@Simon_Radenthis is like taking a peek behind the Walls of area 51 😅
That knot in the table is staring at me😮
If you gaze long into an knot, the knot also gazes into you.
jk. You're the second person to say that. I'm going to have to rewatch this video to see what is so off with that knot.
You added the original ingredients, didn't you?
You forgot the cocaine.
Add it at time of consumption 🤣
can you make another tutorial but this time with actual cocain pls pls
yes !
Angelo Mariani 1863 invented the first Coca-Cola. He was from the island of Corsica. He did fortune in US by selling it in its first version including coca leafs.
Na I think Pemberton invented it in America in 1885.
i wanted to make this recipe, but I struggled to get the cocaine... long story short, I have scored off some hooker in the cross, told her I wanted it to make coke, she was confused and said "but it is coke"... I told her it was over her head, then she said "did you say you want head", to which I replied no just the coke thanks... after that moment I got arrested for solicitation of a hooker and possession of cocaine... when interviewed they asked "cocaine and hookers hey, in for a good night were you, what have you learned from this?" to which i replied " just trying to make coke is all, thats all i want to do is make good old fashioned coke"...to which they replied "are you admitting to manufacturing cocaine"... at this point i asked for a lawyer, after i told the lawyer the story of wanting to make real coke after watching your video, the lawyer looked at me and said "next time just drink a red bull, red bull will give you wings, coke wont"...if you believed any of this story, you deserve to get arrested like i did...
That exact thing happened to me last week.
Hehehehehe 😂
This exact thing happened to me last week
That's a masterpiece 😂 You have quite the imagination 👍🏻🧠
if the receipt is public why people say coke receipt is in a secret vault that no one can break ?
Make it sound cool. This is not the current recipe but it’s very very close and tastes very similar to coke. I’m sure there are only a few who know the EXACT current recipe but this original 1880s recipe gives a good idea of how the present day one is made.
Because perhaps the real "secret vault" is the absolutely ridiculous, meticulous patience, ingredients and time that this all takes to make👀
"There is no secret ingredient. To make something special, you have to believe it is special." - Kungfu Panda 🐼
I definitely read it somewhere that people believe that lavender might be the secret ingredient in Coke.
Me: about to try and order liquid extract of cocaine
You: Just kidding
Lol I wanted to make sure I at least provided the amount. If you watch my French wine coca video I show how to make imitation coca leaf extract that taste just like it.
Right?! Not kidding. I believe there was coke-aine in it at one point😉
I just open the fridge and grab one.
I was curious what the modern cola flavours are. I reduced some to a syrup so I could identify what the taste is. It's extremely specific. The front of the tongue gets caramel with a subtle cinnamon. The main flavour hits the central palette, it's pineapple butterscotch. After that the flavours vanish, no aftertaste at all (probably so you go back for another sip). I know the recipe is different around the world, I tasted it in Ireland.
When Bugs Bunny makes it the spoon melts.
lol was that the Halloween episode with witch hazel? I loved those old cartoons.
Ok, now uve cracked the secret recipe, u must be at least a multi-millionare.
lol, I wish. This is a hobby I have put more money into than I have got out of it.
Really enjoyed the video. Would love to try it with my seltzer maker and see how close it is. I have a coke problem 😂
Are there healthier substitutes to add to your syrup? Is it possible a little bit of baking soda would be a healthy ingredient? If so how much would you add to a liter of soda?
Allulose is a healthy sugar it doesn't store in your body like other sugars do.
I think citric acid is only for preserving, not taste
Fascinating.
I’m sure it makes a difference of the quality of oils used . Have you tried different brands of oils? Also can you tell us the brands you used?
Great video🥤
Thank you!
How similar is the taste to a cola? Thinking of making the alcohol emulsion and using an artificial sweetener instead of sugar.
This recipe taste just like a regular cola. Honestly this recipe taste more like Pepsi than coke. Pepsi is the coke recipe without the coca leaf extract.
digital.lib.ecu.edu/36323
I recently learned how to make an imitation coca leaf extract using Yerba mate and bay leaf that apparently taste just like it. and now that I know what coca leaf taste like the flavor is obvious to me when I drink a coke. It has a sweet and slightly bitter green herbal leaf flavor. Pepsi uses petit grain oil to make up for the lack of coca leaf and another cola recipe I learned uses toasted barley extract for that bitterness. The alcohol emulsion is a common background flavor to all colas, it’s the bitter/sweet herbal flavors added to the syrups that seem to be the distinction between different manufacturers.
Very interesting, thanks for the reply!! @@VintageAmericanCocktails
@@nalec of course! In my French wine Coca video I show how to make the imitation Coca leaf extract.
Awesome, I'll be checking that out this evening. @@VintageAmericanCocktails
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I am from China, I clearly remember in 80's, Pepsi & Coke drinks totally different, but now it they are much much more the same, I miss the 80's Pepsi, it has clear flavor of herbs like Chinese herb medicine, but I can not tell what brings those flavor, thanks very much for the video!!!!
This would be nice if stores actually sold this stuff...
True, I had to buy most of this online and only one store in my city sold the pure super high proof alcohol. Even in the 1800s this was mostly the domain of pharmacies.
Does it go flat like original coke after opening or its taste remain unchanged over time? Also where to store it
It kind of does. The finished syrups flavor would last maybe 6 months but it wouldn’t even make it that long. the syrup itself will only last maybe 2-3 weeks in the refrigerator. On the other hand, The 7x Coca-Cola flavor base last almost indefinitely. I made this over a year ago and I still have some left and it still tastes the same.
What about kola nuts or cola nuts? I heard that the name came from 2 of the ingredients - Coca leaf extract and Kola (Cola) nut extract for caffeine. If so why is kola nut not mentoned in the "original recipie"!?
BOTH of those were added for the stimulants in them...but they *had* to add some flavor(s) to the final product, even if very subtle.
Plus wouldn't cocaine, even the *miniscule* amount in the leaf extract, make your tongue and mouth a *wee* bit numb!?
Oddly there was no kola nut in the original coca-cola but the predecessor to coca-cola, his french coca wine, did have kola nut. personally i think coke smells like kola nut, but who knows, maybe it was just a fun alliteration.
I learned after making this video how to make imitation coca leaf extract and now that i know what it tastes like the flavor of it is overwhelming in coke. It's actually very good. It has a sweet green herbal leafy flavor. so the coca extract does add a significant flavor to the final product. the coca stimulant in coca leaf is not cocaine until it is chemically processed and refined. In bolivia they typically add a little wood ash when chewing to break down and unfold the chemicals in coca into it's more powerful mouth numbing form. A simple ethanol extracted coca leaf acts as a mild stimulant and shouldn't numb the mouth. Its nowhere near as strong as cocaine. Great question!
So would that taste like the Coke we have now or has the recipe changed the flavor?
It tastes very similar. In this video I didn’t add coca leaf extract but It’s the primary flavor in coke in my opinion. coca leaf extract has a green bitter herb flavor similar to green tea. If I were to add that, it would taste exactly like coke.
My mother used to give us coke syrup for upset stomach. She would get it at the drug store that had a soda fountain.
Thank you this video 🍹🫗
Gordon Ramsay would say,...The secret to making a really delicious batch of Coca-Cola, is a nice big bag of cocain!😂
How would I approach adding Gum Arabic as a stabilizer into the syrup system? Just curious how much I should put to increase the stability of the system
Excellent question! Just enough to moisten it with the exact amount of oil that will go in the syrup. It’s really hard to use gum Arabic on a small scale like this because you cant proportion it out like you can the alcohol emulsion. A syrup of this size only needs fractions of a drop of the oils which is why it’s diluted in 8oz of alcohol. The oils for cola and gum Arabic require a large scale syrup production. In my lemon soda video I show how to do gum Arabic. The technique is to grind and press the oils into dry gum Arabic to bind the oils to particles of the gum. So when the gum blends in it the oils stay stuck to it. I’ve tried other emulsifiers and stabilizers and gum arabic is the only one that this worked with.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Thanks for the quick reply! How much quantity would you recommend for a starting point? I'm a food science student and may do a project on this for my capstone, so any recommendations would really help me out. Great video by the way!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails In total, there are 90 drops of oils added to the flavoring base. What's a good starting point for Gum arabic amount for this? Approximately how much did you use in the lemon soda video (was very helpful too!). Sorry to keep bugging you about it, but it would really help me out.
@@scorpionbird88 no worries. That’s 4.5 ml of oil so anything double that would work. Try a tablespoon (10g-ish of dry powder I think) if it seems too wet add a little more. While you want to be precise with the amount of oil, it’s not too important if there is more or less gum Arabic. Gum Arabic doesn’t affect the final product much until it’s 10-20% of the total volume, which if you are just using it to moisten oil you will get nowhere near.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Awesome! So would I just add the compound gum directly into the syrup? Would I need to use any special mixing or heating for it to fully homogenize?
Is it safe for drink?
haha ! I really expected cocaine extract until "just kidding" wiriting arrived
Oh yeah no way I’m going to do that and film it too. The volume of extract I listed is the correct amount though. I wanted to make sure i provided the proper recipe but obviously without a schedule 1 drug.
Could i use something else instead of alcohol for dissolving oils in this syrup
Can you substitute allulose with this?
absolutely. It's a little less sweet than sugar, but that might be a good thing.
Where do you source your oils from?
Was it satisfying and did it taste any good?
It did. It tastes very similar to present day coke.
Where to find coriander oil, cannot find here in malaysia, can I substitute coriander oil with other stuff?
I got mine online. I don’t know if there really is a substitute for coriander oil it’s a unique flavor, but if you want you could make coriander extract by soaking ground coriander seeds in unflavored alcohol. Something strong like 75% or 95% alcohol is best but a 40% vodka works too.
Extracts tend to be 3 or 5% oil but who knows for sure. If you end up making a homemade coriander extract, add it directly to the syrup like the vanilla extract. I don’t know an exact amount so it would just need to be added to taste. Just start small and add more if necessary. Good luck!
should i use powder or liquid gum arabic instead of alcohol
Both liquid and powder will give you the same results but powdered is cheaper. The issue with not using alcohol in this particular recipe is the amount of oil ultimately used is very tiny for this much syrup. Like fractions of a drop. You can’t proportion out the oil mix if you uses gum Arabic so gum only works on a large scale for gallons and gallons of syrup.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you for the reply. Can I use club soda for soda water?
I want a recipe for A&W Root Beer
CIA Columbian white powder is missing lol
I was brought here by RUclips algorithms against my will and.......
Im thirsty after watching ur vid. Its hot and humid here, iced cold coke one please.
lol well I’m glad you liked it. A coke and a burger sounds great.
Right, and guess what? Coca Cola woke up one morning and said, lets give this thing away today.
Are those essential oils or some kind of food flavourings extracted in edible oils?
So how does the taste compare???
I wanted to see you taste it!
Oh I don’t know if you would want to see that, not a pretty sight, but it tastes almost exactly like coke. It just lacks the coca leaf flavor which is a sweet herbal green leaf flavor. I made an updated version of this video where I make imitation coca leaf extract and that one is spot on.
This is interesting.
Glad you like it. I think soda making is fascinating.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails . It's just that I thought it was more of water drink .
This is not the original recipe that was created in 1886 by Pemberton the pharmacist in Atlanta, Georgia.
Soooo how's it taste?
What an amazing recipe thank you 🥰 how can I make it alcohol free and keep the oils evenly suspended in the water ? I really love to watch youtube videos about historical American recipes, keep up the good work ! 👍💗
I'm so glad you liked the video. Thank you!
Another way of emulsifying the oils in water is to use gum arabic. Alcohol was the older way of emulsifying the oil in water, and it works very well, but the more common modern method is mixing the oil with gum arabic powder. Alcohol works by binding to the oil, but once it's introduced to water, the alcohol has a much stronger hydrogen bond to the water, and the oil gets ejected. The ejection gives the oil a negative charge, and the oil molecules can no longer coalesce and will float around the water, suspended indefinitely. Same reason absinthe turns cloudy when water is added. Gum Arabic will emulsify oil in water in a totally different way. It's a super sticky gum that will grab the oil and not let go. Even when mixed with water, it will not let go of the oil it is stuck to. The gum is the same weight as the water and thus will float around, not letting the oil get a chance to bond back together. I've experimented with other gums and emulsifiers, and gum arabic is the only one to work as well as alcohol. If you look at a coke can today, it lists acacia gum as an ingredient. Just grind the oil into a bit of the dry acacia powder till it moistens the powder and it will blend. Great question!
One more thing. I recently got into making vintage soda recipes from the 1800s and they are so cool! Very different from today's sodas and much better. I've added a few to my site and I plan to make some videos of them in the future. Here is a link to my soda page. vintageamericancocktails.com/vintage-recipes/non-alcoholic-drinks/
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Thank you sooooo much for your response ! 💞 I can't wait to make it for my family who doesn't drink alcohol so that's cool, and the fact that you know all this is amazing and super interesting 💗 it's pure physics ! I'll look at your page right now ! Can't wait to see more of your historical soda 🥰 again thank you and sorry that I responded a bit late ! Now that I found your channel I can treat my friends and family with new beverages 😋😆
@@valeriesully5779 lol, don't apologize. I'm glad you enjoy this. I will make a lemon soda video soon, which is really showing how to make old fashion lemon syrup.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails Yes I saw it on your blog and pin it in my pinterest instantly ! Very interesting, can't wait to see it in video for the tutorial 👍
So how much of the u know what should I put in the batch?
Mexico Coca-Cola is supposed to have more flavor than the USA coke. Thanks for sharing recipe.
Hello, when was this recipe stopped and replaced with the current formula that we drink today? Why did the original recipe not continue to the present day, because it seems to be a natural recipe, and better than the current formula that is full of flavours? I hope for a response. Thank you.
I don't know when it changed. I feel the biggest change to the recipe has been using artificial sweeteners because this recipe tastes very similar to a Mexican Coke. More crisp and refreshing than a normal store-bought Coke. I enjoy cokes directly out of the soda machine and glass bottle cokes, but the normal plastic bottle ones just taste flat to me.
I agree too that these are fairly natural. The caramel coloring could be left out but the rest is normal stuff. Natural oils, emulsified in alcohol, are added to a syrup and mixed with carbonated water.
Interesting with a diabetic coma 😂
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Wait. So original original coke had... cocaine AND alcohol? Holy bananas, Batman!!
He said just kidding
Sodas are still made with alcohol today. The method I used in this video is the same method almost every soda manufacturer uses. we use vanilla extract when we make cookies and that is alcoholic but it doesn't make cookies an alcoholic food. And prior to the FDA there were many drugs in sodas. 7up was a mood stabilizer, root beer had anti-inflammatory and cough meds, chocolate drinks were popular opiate drinks, etc.
Sodas are indeed labeled as non-alcoholic because they have so little alcohol in them that you could never get inebriated from them. Most flavored sodas have added alcohol to emulsify the oils, which brings them to an alcohol by volume of 0.0005%. That's super small. Non-alcoholic beers tend to be around 0.05% - 0.1% ABV, and around 1% ABV, drinks start to get labeled as low ABV. Even store-bought juices are usually around 0.1% from natural fermentation. Soda companies don't publicly list ethanol as an ingredient because they can hide it in the "Natural Flavors" label to protect their recipe. One would have to drink around 150 sodas to equal the alcohol content of 1 beer.
Hi, have you try with Brown sugar? ❓ 🎉😅
I have not lol. I’m not sure how that would turn out. I maybe a little too molasses-y, but maybe replacing some of the sugar with brown sugar would be fun.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I will try and let you know soon, thanks for your recipe
@@Kimiwimi2 please do! Thank you
No phosphoric acid?
You are absolutely right and I totally got that wrong in this video. This is one of the first soda videos I ever made and I have learned a ton about soda making in the last few years. My acid game has significantly improved. Here is my updated version of coke where I make sure to use acid phosphate. Great job catching that!
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Where is the cocaine powder. That was one of the ingredient in orginal recipe of coca cola.
Can I use something other than alcohol to emsulsify the oils?
Cool!!!
Is oil extract? Some oils are for diffusers and not edible I feel it would be confusing for people.
That’s a really good point and I will clarify that in any videos going forward. I do use essential oils but they need to be steam distilled. Some are produced using solvents and over a period of time that can be pretty harmful to consume. I’ll specify to only use steam distilled oils. Acetone was a popular solvent to use in the 1800s and that’s why many pharmacists died of stomach cancer back then.
The FDA considers some essential oils as GRAS (generally regarded as safe) as long as they are not produced with solvents and diluted to a concentration one could find in nature. Thank you for pointing that out!
@@VintageAmericanCocktails thank you for answering
ngl u almost got me with the cocaine extract i was like wth lmao
Lol I thought it was funny too. Since making this video I have learned how to make imitation Coca leaf extract so I may remake this video with that. Check out my French wine Coca video where I make imitation Coca leaf extract and a bunch of other wild extracts too.
My wife’s great grand uncle owned the coca/cola formula before it was sold to Pemberton.
I know this is an og recipe but how to make it without alcohol? Surely the ever clear effects the flavor?
That is cool!
Didnt they use any phosphoric acid in the original syrup ?
Nice and beautiful Video😉
Thank you! That means a lot to me. I try to make them look nice and hopefully can keep making the videos look better.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails keep going😉 when i saw the video i thought this is a big channel because the video has a really high quality and is made just perfectly😁😉
One Day your Channel will be big.
Be blessed❤
@@matthiaswenger00 wow Thank you!
Wow thanks. I thought there was a small amount of clove in the recipe? Don’t remember where I read this from though.
Clove sounds good. I was thinking about making my own cola recipe and I think clove would be great in it.
@@VintageAmericanCocktails I remember reading about it years ago that it was the secret ingredient but who knows. Let me know!