I love club soda with some lemon juice and some sour cherry syrup, all over ice. Nice and refreshing.
On the beach, I fill the empty bottle with sand and use it as a club.
I’ve heard it gets blood out of the rug after you’ve dumped the body.
Sure, but carbon dioxide is a leavener. It would have the same effect as baking powder. So it adds extra leavening to the mix and the thick batter keeps it from escaping until it hits the griddle.
Go to the Club!
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Yeast doesn’t generate significant CO2 during baking — the heat kills then off pretty quick. They generate CO2 during the rise. The dough grows in volume in the oven because the heat causes the gases within it to expand.
An old-fashioned ice cream soda.
Years ago, on a visit to the original Greg’s Ice Cream location in Toronto (one of the best ice cream parlors in town, unfortunately went defunct during the COVID-19 pandemic), having seen this on the menu, I asked Greg to make me one. He took a glass and as I recall, put two scoops of one of my favorite flavor, I think it was chocolate frost, and added a can of club soda to it. It lived up to my expectations.
I typically just drink it over ice, or use it in mixed drinks like the Tom Collins or a whole host of others.
Yes! And a very happy memory.
I don’t know how old I was, but I was a child at a friend’s birthday party, and after bowling (seems like everybody’s birthday party involved bowling in those days), we went to Fran’s* for ice cream sodas. First time I ever had one, but it would not be the last. Yes, use your club soda for ice cream sodas. If you’re like me, they will bring back many happy memories.
(*) Fran’s: a Toronto diner chain that tried, not always successfully, to be a little more than just a diner. But the food was good, and there was plenty of it, and nobody could have a complaint about the service—always prompt and friendly.
You’re absolutely right; that was a brain fart on my part.
But it supports my suspicion that using soda water in a recipe doesn’t have a significant effect on the end product.
Regarding ice cream sodas, another important component with the soda water is syrup: usually chocolate or vanilla. A chocolate soda with vanilla ice cream was called a “black and white.” I preferred the opposite: vanilla syrup with chocolate ice cream, but I don’t think that one was called a “white and black.”
Without syrup, ISTM that ice cream in soda water would just be a float, as ice cream in root beer is a root beer float. I’ve never heard of a “soda water float,” but all the ice cream sodas I’ve ever known needed syrup.
Same question, but from a northwesterner. Not sure what club soda has to do with going to the beach.
Not where I grew up. That’s a Black Cow.
Indeed. The beaches I frequent (French Caribbean) people often have chilled white wine and a long loaf of French bread.
Not a bad idea, but for the record, the Mexican company Jarritos makes soda in unusual flavors like guava, mango, watermelon, mandarin orange, pineapple, and tamarind. Usually have to go to a Hispanic market, at least around here, but I have occasionally seen Jarritos sodas in Kroger.
Drink it and get outta here. 
So outrageous!
Oooh.
Well, it’s good to know that if I can’t think of something now, I can still use them in the near future.
We got things for the rental at the beach, okay, and didn’t use all of them. I also ended up with three (now two and a half) limes but I have plans for those so I didn’t mention them.
Characters in the hard-boiled detective novel I’m reading are always drinking gin, selzer, lemon juice, and ice, so I might try that.
A standard popular drink from the 1920s that I enjoy today is a Gimlet. 4 parts gin, 1 part Roses sweetened lime juice, 1 part ordinary lime juice (fresh or bottled). So 2/3rds booze, 1/3rd non-booze. It’s a rather stiff drink.
Cutting that about 50/50 with club soda in a tall glass makes a much more relaxing afternoon cocktail rather than a post-dinner stupor-inducer.
If you’re not a gin fan, the flavor profile w vodka is similar. Tart, but not too tart, and not sickly sweet like so many afternoon cocktails.
Aren’t you an airline pilot? Pilots drink scotch in-flight – it’s in the manual!
