Recipes

[depglass]

There are currently at least two recipes here using soda (pop in our area) as an ingredient in slow cooking beef roasts or pork roasts.  What is the magic ingredient, the flavoring or the carbonation?  I also have a few recipes using beer, I'm assuming that is for the beer flavor?

[IamMrsG]

Acid has the ability to break down fibers, tenderizing the meat a little.  Marinading meat in soda also infuses a sweet flavor. 

[deepwaterdotter]

I make a tasty recipe for pulled pork with a shoulder roast and root beer.

[IlliniGirl88]

I'll mix Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce with a can of root beer and pour over a pork roast, it's wonderful, or McCormick's roast packet mixed with a Coca-Cola and pour over beef roast.  Yum!

[ECBG]

Years ago, they used to pour coke over ham.  It was the "rage"!

[Financialgrl]

This has been around for a long time  bc I inherited my mother's recipe box (she's been dead for 45 years) and there's a paper clipping about seasoning a beef roast and pouring a coke over it. 

Ironically I just saw one on FB for dessert using apples  - you roll apples in sugar and spices and rolling it in dough and pouring 7-up down the sides.  

[Nightowlz]

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@ECBG wrote:

Years ago, they used to pour coke over ham.  It was the "rage"!

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@ECBG 

I have always heard to use 7up to baste the ham to reduce the salt. It does seem to help.

[RedTop]

My oven roasting with beef or pork roasts always involve Coke or Dr Pepper, lots of onions, a bit of brown sugar and chipotle papers in adobo sauce.   

[magicmoodz]

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@Nightowlz wrote:

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@ECBG wrote:

Years ago, they used to pour coke over ham.  It was the "rage"!

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@ECBG 

I have always heard to use 7up to baste the ham to reduce the salt. It does seem to help.

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My father-in-law always used Ginger Ale when cooking a ham. Funny I had forgotten that--thanks for the reminder!

[RetRN]

I have several recipes for meat using soda. Some call for Coke, others gingerale, and others root beer. I do think it tenderizes.