Bartender's Sugar Syrup
"Cocktails and other drinks often list sugar syrup as an ingredient, so having just found a recipe for a yummy sounding cocktail I rushed out to buy some. Of course you can never find an ingredient when you are particularly looking for it and yes, you’ve guessed it, there was a large gap in the shelf where the sugar syrup should have been! So on my return home I surfed the Internet and found a website called in-the-spirit.co.uk Lo and behold, they had a recipe for making sugar syrup, and here it is."
- Ready In:
- 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 2
- Yields:
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60 ml
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons caster sugar (superfine)
- 4 tablespoons water
directions
- Put 4 tablespoons of water and 4 tablespoons of caster sugar into a small saucepan and stir over a low heat until the sugar has dissolved.
- Bring to the boil, then continue to boil without stirring, for 1-2 minutes.
- Cool then refrigerate in a covered container and keep for no longer than 2 weeks.
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Reviews
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We make this as needed using granulated sugar with great results. You could just substitute it by using honey, but it's so simple to make sugar syrup (aka. simple syrup, gomme syrup and sirop de gomme), and it adds a little homemade touch to your cocktails. Thanks for posting. :) -
Thank you! You singlehandedly saved our "mum's cocktail night out"! Couldn't find sugar syrup at local supermarket. What's a girl to do? Sure enough - found the best recipe on RecipeZaar! Thanks Mrs B - You rock!
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Perfect! By the way, this can easily be scaled up or down - as long as you use equal proportions of sugar to water. Thanks for posting this handy recipe! :)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Mrs B
Worcester Park, Surrey
I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London.
I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too!
I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food!
I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them!
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My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly.
As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too.
If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
