Sassafras Tea

Sassafras tea tastes amazingly like rootbeer-- in fact I think that sassafras root is the ingredient that "root" beer is made from. I think that old-fashioned sarsaparilla is soda made from sassafras. I bet you could make a tea, then sweeten with honey, and you could use dry ice to make it carbonated. I don't know if the dry ice is Paleo, but it's just adding bubbles. We used to make rootbeer with rootbeer flavoring and water, then put a about 1 pound of dry ice in a large container with it and wait a couple of hours for it to get carbonated. I'll have to try it with the sassafras tea.

From: Julie Jarvis. Posted to PaleoFood list 22 Jan 1999.