Dave Smith wrote:
> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>
>
>>I remember being a little girl when friends of my parents brought them
>>an unusual gift of a fancy decorated pot with a pale substance in it.
>>My parents never cooked with much in the way of spices so I wasn't
>>familiar with it, but my father told me to smell it. I did, thought for
>>a moment and then announced "gingerale!" The gift was dried ginger
>>which I'd never seen before, but I recognized the smell of ginger.
>>
>>So here it is 35 years later, and I'm buying gingerale for Jim's cough,
>>and I'm looking at the ingredients of the different brands: Schweppes,
>>Canada Dry and Polar. I can't see that any of them have ginger in them.
>> I taste the Canada Dry when I get home. It bears no resemblence to
>>fresh ginger. So I think that maybe the name has nothing to do with the
>>original product except that doesn't explain how I knew real dried
>>ginger smelled like gingerale all those years ago.
>>
>>Now for the harder question. What if I wanted to make a ginger flavored
>>soft drink at home? Has anyone tried this? Squeeze ginger into a
>>seltzer or something?
>
>
> How about trying ginger beer, the non -alcoholic variety. It has a lot more
> ginger taste to it than ginger ale.
>

There are a variety of "boutique" ginger ales out there today with
fairly strong ginger flavor.


jim