COcocola Recepi

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Everett Beal's Recipe

Book Pemberton's Notebook
In Feb 28, 1979 Article Published in the 1992
Atlanta Journal and History: For God,
Constitution Country & Coca-Cola
Newspaper
FE Coca 3 drams USP 4 oz FE Coco
(Fluid Extract of Coca)
Citric Acid 3 oz 3 oz
Caffeine 1 oz 1oz Citrate Caffein
Sugar 30 # 30 #
Water 2.5 gal 2.5 gal
Everett Beal's Recipe
Book Pemberton's Notebook
In Feb 28, 1979 Article Published in the 1992
Atlanta Journal and History: For God,
Constitution Country & Coca-Cola
Newspaper
Lime Juice 2 pints (1 qrt) 1 qrt
Vanilla 1 oz 1 oz
Caramel 1.5 oz or more to color Color sufficient
Use 2 oz flavor (below)
2.5 oz flavor
to 5 gals syrup
7X Flavor
Alcohol 8 oz 1 qrt
Orange Oil 20 drops 80
Lemon Oil 30 120
Nutmeg Oil 10 40
Corriander Oil 5 20
Neroli Oil 10 40
Cinnamon Oil 10 40
(The Pemberton formula for 7X is the same
as the Beal, just four times as much.)
How to Make This Recipe
As we said in the radio story, this recipe includes two parts. The recipe for the syrup, and the
recipe for the 7X flavoring formula. You can scale down the recipe for the syrup if you don't
want to make gallons of the syrup. You will need one ounce of syrup mixed with 5 ounces of
carbonated water to make a serving of soda.
When you buy your ingredients be careful that you buy FOOD GRADE. There are lots of things
you can find on the Internet that can be used in this recipe that are not food grade and will make
you sick.
1) Make the 7X flavor. To make this, you'll want food grade essential oils at 100 percent
strength. They can be found by searching for food grade essential oils in the grocery section of
Amazon.com and other places (this orange oil, for instance).
For a home recipe, you can get an eyedropper and count drops the old-fashioned way, but if you
want to be more precise, Steve Warth at Sovereign Flavors says he estimated each drop was .025
grams, which means you want 0.5 grams of Orange Oil, 0.75 of Lemon Oil, 0.25 grams of
Nutmeg Oil, 0.125 grams of Coriander Oil, 0.25 grams of Neroli Oil, 0.25 grams of Cinnamon
Oil (historian Mark Pendergrast says the original Coke recipe was made with a kind of cinnamon
called Cassia).
Combine those with 8 ounces of food grade alcohol. This ingredient, we'll be frank, will be kind
of a pain in the ass to find. Important: Do NOT use Ethyl Rubbing Alcohol or Rubbing Alcohol
or Denatured Ethyl Alcohol. 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.
2) Make your fluid extract of coca. Buy whole leaf coca tea. Instructions for making coca
extract from this can be found online. You don't need much. The recipe calls for 3 fluid drams,
which is equivalent to 1/8 of a fluid ounce or – an easier measurement for a home kitchen – 3/4
of a tablespoon.
3) Make the syrup. 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.
Several Notes:
-- If you do not want to make several gallons of the syrup, you can adjust the recipe by reducing
all ingredients by the same rate -- one half the original amount, one quarter, and so on.
-- Another important thing about this step, as we said in the radio story about the recipe, the
Sovereign Flavors chemists concluded that in order to compensate for the intensity of
contemporary essential oils (125 years of advances in food technology means it's possible that
they're much stronger than the oils Pemberton used in his lab in 1886) the 7X flavoring addition
should be reduced by 75 percent. That means, if you make the full size batch, you should only
use 1/2 ounce of 7X formula instead of the 2 ounces specified in the original recipe.
-- You might want to cut down on the caffeine. 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.
-- Some ingredients are measured in fluid ounces, others are measured in ounces by weight. 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.
4) Make the soda. 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.

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