History of the Soda Fountain

Soda Fountain Recipes

You walk into the pharmacy, pick up your foul tasting medicine, and then walk to the other side of the counter, where the pharmacist would mix the medicine with a sweet, flavored syrup and soda water from a soda fountain. This might be a drink that the pharmacist might make for you.

Imperial Cream Soda
First part- Making the syrup. Take 1 gallon of water; 8lbs loaf sugar; 8oz tartaric acid; gum Arabic, 1oz.
Second part- 4 teaspoonfuls of flour; the whites of 4 eggs; beat the flour and eggs finely together, then add half a pint of water; when the first is blood warm put in the second and boil 3 minutes and it is done.
Directions- 3 table-spoonsful of the syrup to a glass half or two-thirds full of water, and add one-third tea-spoonful of super carbonate of soda made fine, stir well and drink to your leisure.