Lots of nice cordials around. Buderim ginger cordial. There are fancy schmancy elderflower cordials too. The Bickfords range is huge. My all time favorite is the Bickfords Lemon Lime & Bitters. I used to be a fan of Schweppes Lime cordial but I don’t like the taste now - too fake sweetener and nothing like what it used to be 20 years ago.
You can make your own cordial by blitzing up a punnet of raspberries or blueberries with their own weight in water plus half to one third their weight in sugar (or a bit less), mix in a teaspoon of citric and/or tartaric acid. Bottle and keep in the fridge for up to a week. If it ferments, you now have alcoholic cordial … Or go to YT for a recipie for raspberry shrub which is a vinegar based cordial and very nice indeed and possibly quite healthy.
PS. Grenadine is a fancy very sweet pomegranate cordial. Kinda gluey, but essential for a proper tequila sunrise.
I’m partial to the Aldi Westcliff Fruit Cocktail cordial. I add a bit to the glass, then add the soda water.
Depending on how much cordial you put in, it goes from tasting like those mineral waters with 5% juice (my preference) all the way up to a full blown Passiona.
NB: I don’t like the Aldi Raspberry Apple or Lemon cordial. For lemon (like a lemon squash), I like the Diet Rite Lemon with soda. Diet Rite Lemon, Lime & Orange is good too.
I think those cordials are about $3.50 a bottle, though. So if you just want a couple of bottles to drink for one night, you’re better off picking a couple of bottles of the homebrand fizzies. Eg WW Diet Orange & Passionfruit is $1.10, and the same price as a bottle of soda water. I haven’t had it, but it probably tastes about the same anyways.
I also didn’t mind the Woolies Diet Ginger Ale $1.10/bottle, but haven’t had that for quite a while. Lime goes well with it, but the real limes are often expensive. You can pick up a bottle of Lime Juice for $1 and give it a little squirt to add some more flavour.
I’ll have a look and see how the combo works, never done soda water and cordial and might be a good one if I can get cordial that I like.
Yup, I don’t mind the aldi versions of the fizzy drinks either.
Lots of nice cordials around. Buderim ginger cordial. There are fancy schmancy elderflower cordials too. The Bickfords range is huge. My all time favorite is the Bickfords Lemon Lime & Bitters. I used to be a fan of Schweppes Lime cordial but I don’t like the taste now - too fake sweetener and nothing like what it used to be 20 years ago.
You can make your own cordial by blitzing up a punnet of raspberries or blueberries with their own weight in water plus half to one third their weight in sugar (or a bit less), mix in a teaspoon of citric and/or tartaric acid. Bottle and keep in the fridge for up to a week. If it ferments, you now have alcoholic cordial … Or go to YT for a recipie for raspberry shrub which is a vinegar based cordial and very nice indeed and possibly quite healthy. PS. Grenadine is a fancy very sweet pomegranate cordial. Kinda gluey, but essential for a proper tequila sunrise.
I’m partial to the Aldi Westcliff Fruit Cocktail cordial. I add a bit to the glass, then add the soda water.
Depending on how much cordial you put in, it goes from tasting like those mineral waters with 5% juice (my preference) all the way up to a full blown Passiona.
NB: I don’t like the Aldi Raspberry Apple or Lemon cordial. For lemon (like a lemon squash), I like the Diet Rite Lemon with soda. Diet Rite Lemon, Lime & Orange is good too.
I think those cordials are about $3.50 a bottle, though. So if you just want a couple of bottles to drink for one night, you’re better off picking a couple of bottles of the homebrand fizzies. Eg WW Diet Orange & Passionfruit is $1.10, and the same price as a bottle of soda water. I haven’t had it, but it probably tastes about the same anyways.
I also didn’t mind the Woolies Diet Ginger Ale $1.10/bottle, but haven’t had that for quite a while. Lime goes well with it, but the real limes are often expensive. You can pick up a bottle of Lime Juice for $1 and give it a little squirt to add some more flavour.
For some reason I keep missing the cordials at Aldi, I’ll really need to remember for the next time I’m there to see what they have.