What it does create is a beautiful marbling effect in the drink when you mix it.
After research and trial and error, I found that adding baking soda to the raspberry sauce stabilizes it and prevents it from curdling. When I was experimenting with the recipe, I found that the acidic raspberry sauce and the cream were a curdling disaster waiting to happen. I also made it more flamboyant with fairy floss and fresh raspberries for garnish. My Italian Cream Soda is made with fresh homemade raspberry sauce and sparkling water made using my Sodastream Spirit machine. Might have even been the inspiration for all those tall cream sodas in American diners from Italian migrants. When you add a bit of cream, it becomes Italian Cream Soda and instantly more delicious. Traditionally, an Italian soda is made with flavoured syrup and sparkling water on ice. So much, that I created a little cream soda of my own.
I love watching the actors slurp down their tall sodas and colourful ice cream floats while concocting plans to catch hooded monsters and thwart bad guys. My favourite scenes from Riverdale are the ones shot at Pop Tate’s – a retro all American diner-style hangout for Archie and his gang. Little did I know when I was growing up that my favourite comic about a carrot-top goofball and his gang would be made into a dark and edgy television show. Watching the first couple of seasons of Riverdale on Netflix has been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me – childhood nostalgia revisited every week. Oh, it brought back so many memories of growing up! In fact, the last two go pretty much hand in hand, something I realized after watching Riverdale on Netflix. I was a child of the 80s – big hair and scrunchies, colourful plastic hoops, baggy jeans rolled up at the cuffs, Backstreet Boys (and later NSYNC), Archie comics and Italian cream sodas.