Fresh Lime Soda

Name: Fresh Lime Soda
Total time: PT0D0H0M
Yield: serves 1
Ingredients: 2 tbsp. simple syrup (made by first boiling together equal parts sugar and water, then letting it cool); 1 1 ⁄ 2 tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice (regular supermarket limes—a k a persian limes—are the best ones to use); 3 ⁄ 4 cup soda water; Lime slice, for serving

Serves
serves 1

ANDRÉ BARANOWSKI

In A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food (Oxford University Press, 1998), author K. T. Achaya says that fresh lime soda was "the supreme quencher of colonial thirst" in India.

Ingredients

2 tbsp. simple syrup (made by first boiling together equal parts sugar and water, then letting it cool)
1 ¹⁄₂ tbsp. freshly squeezed lime juice (regular supermarket limes—a k a persian limes—are the best ones to use)
³⁄₄ cup soda water
Lime slice, for serving

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