I heard that real Dr Pepper has unicorn horn shavings in it. Also leprechaun tears.
You're thinking "Mr. Pibb"
It doesn't taste anything like prune either.
I taste neither prune nor plum in Doctor Pepper, I get something closer to cherry out of there though.
um, you can. Sunsweet PlumSmart, among others.
It sounded interesting to me too. I want to see what it does without any clarifiers first. I can do the unflavored gelatin thing if I need to. I've also got baking splenda on hand to back-sweeten, though that gets a little pricey. I'll probably back-sweeten with table sugar, and then bottle pasteurize immediately thereafter.
I did the second batch of the Dr. Pepper clone today. It was closer. Reduced the black cherry juice a great deal, and made the other changes to flavoring brands I talked about earlier. Recipe as follows:
1/2 cup black cherry juice. Just Black Cherry, R.W. Knudsen Family brand.
2 quarts filtered water. My tap water tastes bad, hence the filtered.
1 cup granulated sugar.
2 tbs molasses. Grandma's original, unsulphured.
1/4 tsp rum flavoring. Kroger imitation rum extract.
1/4 cup lemon juice. ReaLemon 100% juice.
2 tsp vanilla extract. I used really cheap imitation vanilla extract.
1/4 tsp almond extract. Great Value Pure Almond Extract.
It's still missing something. I'm fairly confident that what it is missing is kola.
The molasses flavor is still to strong, I'll cut the molasses down in the next batch.
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