How to make a DIY tonic
Possibly you already know that everything do it yourself, do it yourself, is in fashion. The abbreviations DIY, with which this trend is abbreviated, are everywhere and there is not much effort to find instructions to do practically anything at home. By proxy you can even make a homemade gin at home.And if you make your own gin, why not make your own homemade tonic? Taking into account that nothing needs to be distilled here, it is possibly even easier. The recipe is already circulating in American blogs and you just have to add a little value to start making it. The result, by the way, will be colored, because by not using industrial quinine it will not be transparent as it happens with the purchased tonic.
What do you need to make your DIY tonic? The list of ingredients is as follows:
- 1 lemon
- 1 lime
- 2 cups of water
- 2 tablespoons cinchona (also called quina: you will have to trust the internet and herbalists to get it)
- 1 tablespoon and a quarter of citric acid powder
- 1 lemongrass stem, which in Spanish is also known as lemongrass or lemongrass
- 1 and a half cups of sugar
- 6 cups of carbonated water
With all these ingredients you will be ready to make your tonic. The recipe seems laborious, but thinking about making your own tonic always has a motivating point. You have to start by grating the lemon and the lime and also extracting the juice. The grated skin and the juice will go to a saucepan with the water, cinchona, sugar, citric acid powder and lemongrass (which will have been chopped before. Bring to a boil and then leave for about 45 minutes to cook. mid fire.
When that time has passed, we will have the syrup that will be the base of the tonic. It must be strained (as many times as necessary so that there are no solid remains) and then it is left for two hours to cool. It can be kept in the fridge.
After this cooling time, it will be possible to make the tonic: you just have to mix the syrup with the carbonated water. The formula for the final result to be pleasant is one part of syrup for four of water.
But if these instructions have seemed very complicated, don't despair: you can always use the bottled tonic (or buy a pack of gin and tonic and kill two birds with one stone)
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