Original Phosphate Soda Recipes

These original phosphate soda recipes are from the 1950s, and earlier. Soda fountain beverages called Phosphates, or Acids, received their unusual name from the acid phosphate that was added to the beverage to enhance its tangy taste and fizz.

Orange, cherry, lemon, lime (called a Green River), grape, vanilla, chocolate, and egg phosphates were the most popular flavor choices, though some fancier phosphate beverages combined several flavors and often a garnish of fruit to attract thirsty buyers. All are deliciously refreshing!

subheading: The Dispenser's Formulary or Soda Water Guide (1915):

Many old fashioned soda fountain recipes require making the fruit flavored syrups. However, you can simplify any recipe by using store-bought syrups instead.

subheading: CHERRY PHOSPHATE:

One ounce cherry syrup, 4 dashes of phosphate. Fill glass with carbonated water, using coarse stream; stir well with spoon.

subheading: ORANGE PHOSPHATE:

The Orange Phosphate drink was loved for its zesty refreshing flavor, and it's the most requested of all the phosphate soda recipes.

A little orange syrup in a mineral-water glass, a little acid phosphate squirted into it, carbonated water from the coarse stream enough to nearly fill the glass, and cracked ice, or not, as the occasion or the drinker may require, the whole well stirred with a spoon, constitutes this most popular, perhaps, of all orange drinks.

subheading: CHERRY ROOT SODA:

Cherry syrup, 1 ounce; root beer, 4 ounces; phosphate, 2 dashes. Draw syrup in 10-ounce glass and fill half-full with carbonated water, fine stream, then draw in carbonated root beer and add dash of phosphate.

subheading: PINEAPPLE PHOSPHATE:

Pineapple syrup, 2 ounces; solution of acid phosphate, 3 dashes. Half fill a soda glass with crushed ice, pour over it the syrup and phosphate, fill with carbonated water, stir and drain into a mineral glass. Price-5 cents.

subheading: ARCTIC PHOSPHATE:

½ ounce strawberry syrup, ½ ounce pineapple syrup, ½ ounce vanilla syrup, ½ ounce orange syrup, 3 dashes acid phosphate, ½ glass cracked ice, carbonated water sufficient to fill 12-ounce glass. Stir thoroughly with a spoon. Serve with spoon and straws. Charge 5 cents for 8 ounces.

subheading: PHOSPHATE FRAPPE:

For this phosphate soda recipe, fill 8- or 9-ounce glass with finely shaved ice, add 3 dashes of solution of acid phosphate and nearly cover the ice with the desired syrup; serve with a spoon.

subheading: RED ORANGE:

1 ounce red orange syrup, 1 teaspoonful solution of acid phosphates, 7 ounces plain soda water. Mix the syrup and solution of acid phosphates and draw coarse soda stream till glass is full; stir with spoon. Serve in 8-ounce mineral water glass.

subheading: SUNSHINE:

1 ounce pineapple syrup, ¼ ounce raspberry syrup, 1 dash lemon juice, 2 dashes solution of acid phosphate. Place in an 8-ounce glass and fill with carbonated water. Price-5 cents.

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