2007-03-12 11:37:39 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Non-Alcoholic Drinks
saspirilla
2007-03-12 12:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Real root beer is actually from the roots of several kinds of trees and bushes. It was originally used a a tonic (the original herbal beverage). I have an old book from 1932, that lists several different recipes. most including various combinations of sarsparilla, pine, ginger, mandrake, sassafras and others, usually sweetened with molasses and sometimes fermented to produce fizz and alcohol.
Modern root beer is usually artificially flavored, or mostly sarsparilla and pine.
2007-03-16 16:55:40 · answer #2 · answered by Niklaus Pfirsig 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ingredients may include sarsaparilla allspice, birch bark, coriander, juniper, ginger, wintergreen, hops, burdock root, dandelion root, spikenard, pipsissewa, guaiacum, yellow dock, honey, clover, cinnamon, prickly ash bark, quillaia, and yucca.
most of the flavors used today are artifical , but originally assorted barks were used.
2007-03-16 16:11:45 · answer #3 · answered by makeda m 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Licorice root, sarsaparilla root, sassafras root bark
2007-03-12 18:41:07 · answer #4 · answered by Joy M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Licorice root.
2007-03-16 02:37:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Birch tree root, very tasty, even the bark.
2007-03-12 19:43:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ginger root. I know this one is true.
2007-03-13 10:38:51 · answer #7 · answered by bcmiller81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sarsaparilla root, i think
2007-03-12 18:40:17 · answer #8 · answered by Koosher 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ginger. That's if it's like ours here in Australia =)
2007-03-12 18:40:51 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sarsaparilla
2007-03-12 20:15:49 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋