Quoted message said:We enjoy wine with our meals. But we have a few teetotal frieds, plus
those who are the car drivers of course, for whom I try to seek
non-alchoholic drinks that are not sweet. In other words, something to
make a change from just mineral water.Recentaly I've heard that here in the UK Sarsparella is obtainable if
one seeks it out (although I've yet to see it where we normally shop).
It's a name I know from the past but that's about the extent of it.Can anyone out there tell me a bit more about it?
Sarsaparilla is a brown soda/soft drink flavored with a
tropical root. Its flavor is more complex than "root beer".
Some commercial varieties had a very medicinal flavor.
I haven't seen it for sale in many years, but it used to be
a common soda flavor in New England in the 1950s.
Could you substitute tonic or seltzer water with lemon or lime,
lemonade, other fruit juice, or iced tea for your teetotal friends?
gloria p