Homemade fruit soda
By:
Tom Shingler
Head of food, delicious.
- Published: 5 Dec 24
- Updated: 5 Dec 24
Making your own cordials and syrups for drinks – whether they’re alcoholic or not – is a great way to preserve seasonal fruit or just get a great-tasting drink with completely natural ingredients. Use this basic recipe as a blueprint for making fruit syrups, which are perfect served over ice and diluted with soda water.
Ingredients
- 150g frozen berries or seasonal fruit of your choice
- 25g caster sugar (see Know-how)
- Soda water to serve
Method
- Put your fruit of choice in a saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes.
- Line a sieve with muslin or kitchen paper, then set over a jug or bowl. Pour the contents of the pan into the sieve. Leave until the liquid stops dripping into the bowl.
- Gather up the muslin or paper and give it a squeeze to extract any remaining liquid from the solids. Pour the liquid back into the pan, add the sugar and simmer briefly (1-2 minutes) until the sugar has dissolved. Leave to cool.
- Decant the syrup into a bottle or container and keep in the fridge until needed (see Make Ahead). Add a splash (roughly 25ml) to a glass filled with ice and top up with soda water.
- Recipe from Online only 2024 Issue
Nutrition
- Calories
- 75kcals
- Fat
- 0g
- Protein
- 0g
- Carbohydrates
- 19g (19g sugars)
- Fibre
- 0g
- Salt
- 0g
delicious. tips
Any leftover syrup will happily sit in the fridge for 2 weeks.
Make sure you taste your syrup and check you’re happy with the sweetness – some tarter fruits like rhubarb or citrus might need a touch more sugar.
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