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We Made The Original Dr Pepper Recipe From 1885 !!!



Ingredients
1L (4 cups) water
175g dried prunes
130g raspberries
2 vanilla beans, split
15g dry wintergreen leaves
8g whole cloves
2g peppercorns
20g chopped ginger
2.5g ground nutmeg
2g (around 10 pods) cardamom
6g cinnamon stick
4 juniper berries
3g cut and sifted wild cherry bark
3g liquorice bark
3g sarsaparilla
2g cut and sifted gentian root
800g sugar
10g citric acid
15 mL molasses
30 mL pure almond extract
10 mL cherry extract
5 mL lemon extract
5 mL orange extract
2 mL star anise extract
We Made The Original Dr Pepper Recipe From 1885 !!!

27 Comments

  1. I appreciate the video and enjoyed the content, but I am surprised that after purchasing so many expensive ingredients that you couldn't invest in an inexpensive kitchen scale. It would have made a difference in your accuracy. Also, 3 teaspoons is 1 tablespoon. Much easier. AND club soda has sodium and other ingredients. You really need seltzer water to be honest to your ingredients.

  2. Love these types of videos šŸ™‚ You three should make another channel together, testing old recipes like this and the Coke one. I personally love watching YouTubers who attempt to recreate old recipes and try them. I find it interesting to see if its even doable, keep up the amazing work! Also love the MRE video's as well, learning about different foods for different Military. šŸ™‚

  3. Why doesn’t anyone try to do this with one of those soda makers that carbonizes any liquid you put in it, so you don’t have to ruin the flavors with club soda.

  4. Just use plain water and make some CO2 gas to put in the water, probably under pressure I don't know for sure. You can make CO2 gas with citric acid and baking soda using equal parts of each(I think) and mix them together in water. Make the CO2 in a closed container an you will need some sort of tube to run from the container over to your drink and probably attach the tube to a lid that you can hold down against the rim of your glass to let the pressure force the gas through your drink.

  5. What did you put in it for the caffeine? According to google the caffeine they put in Dr. Pepper and most commercially produced caffeinated soft drinks is synthetically produced in a Chinese pharmaceutical plants.Synthetic caffeine is produced by chemical synthesis of urea as a raw material, which is then combined with different chemicals such as methyl chloride and ethyl acetate. When caffeine is made synthetically, it is produced with a much higher concentration and is absorbed much faster by the body.

  6. U needed way more syrup in those cups lol has to be as dark as the soda in the bottle

  7. If you don't mind, where did you all find this recipe? I've only ever heard of the "Pepsin Bitters" recipe (which might have been a very early precursor and contains gentian root, cloves, cinnamon, and a couple kinds of tree bark)

  8. Sounds like it could've been tonic water and not soda. The bitterness being from quinine. Maybe they messed up the bottling.

  9. Should’ve of used seltzer water instead of club soda. , club soda has sodium content which will alter the taste on what your actually trying to achieve.

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