Syrup Recipes
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Make Your Own Dazzling Gourmet Syrups
Make your own flavored syrups from scratch. It's not hard and the flavor possibilities are endless. After buying a bottle of lavender soda I decided to research lavender syrup recipes to see how hard it would be to make my own. I found a fascinating world of not just fruit and chocolate syrup, but flower, herb and spice syrups as well. Here are the recipes I've collected.
Image entitled US Grades of Syrup is courtesy of LadyDragonflyCC on Flickr.
Uses For Syrups
Make your own sodas
Soak cakes with flavor
On pancakes or waffles
Flavor cocktails
Top ice cream
Add a dash of flavor to soup
Flavor coffee, tea and hot chocolate
Make a salad dressing
Chocolate and Vanilla Syrups
Winter Holiday Syrups
Fruit Syrups
Herb Syrups
Hard to Find Ingredients
...if you live in the middle of nowhere like I do...
Flowery Syrups
Inspired to Make Your Own Syrup?
Don't Have Time to Make Your Own?
You can find exotic syrup flavors here via Amazon
Real Maple Syrup
You may be wondering how to make maple syrup. Well, you need a stand of maple trees, the end of winter, and a lot of patience for watching a pot boil. Real maple syrup is much different than the maple-flavored syrup most of us Americans put on our pancakes. It is thinner and has a lighter flavor, almost flowery.
To make one gallon of syrup you need 40-60 gallons of sap, depending on the kind of maple tree it is and the sugar content of the sap. It can take hours to boil it down.
In the 1800s there was a large tariff on cane sugar and so maple syrup was an important industry for the northeast United States and Canada. Along with honey and molasses it was a primary sweetener. Once the tariff was lifted in the late 1800s the face of the food industry and how we sweeten things changed overnight.
You can buy some jugs of the naturally sweet goodness below.
Phosphate Soda Fountains
Before there were coffee shops to get Italian sodas at, there were soda fountains where you could get a "phosphate" made with sparkling phosphate soda and a flavored syrup. As a little girl in the 1960s I'd go with my dad and get a cherry phosphate at the soda fountain in the local drugstore on Saturday afternoons. Later, when I was a teenager working there, I served up not only cherry cokes but chocolate and vanilla as well.
It wasn't until I was researching this lens that I learned more about what phosphate really is and how phosphoric acid is being discouraged from being used in bottled soft drinks for health reasons. See more about that here: Phosphate Soda Recipes
Blog Posts from Google
- Jubilee recipe: Will Torrent's Royal Jubilee trifle
- Once the port, sugar and berry mixture has boiled, leave to cool then send through a sieve over a bowl, leaving you with a glossy berry syrup. Reheat the syrup gently, then add the gelatine as per instructions on the packet.
- Undercurrent Restaurant: Recipes
- Greensboro, NC - Here are the recipes for the dishes that Undercurrent chef Michael Harkenreader made for us this morning. 1 - Peel and dice the cucumber. Salt the cucumber with 2 teaspoons of salt and let drain for 30 minutes 2 - Add garlic, ...
- Strawberries jubilee recipe
- Strain, reserving the fruit, and measure the syrup. You should have 200ml (7fl oz). If necessary, top up with water. Carefully spoon the white froth off the top. Soak the gelatine in cold water until it is completely soft ? about five minutes.
- Dave's roasts up an organic coffee syrup
- A second flavor takes the original recipe and adds Madagascar vanilla beans to the mix. ?We split and scrape the beans ourselves,? Albergaria said. ?There are flecks of actual vanilla beans in the syrup.? In order to keep the product 100 percent Rhode ...
Grenadine syrup is flavored with pomegranate.
Syrupy Tweets
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- JustAPinchClub
- Can't go wrong w/ a Kentucky Butter Cake #recipe. Perfect way to go @BoldwithButter! Would be delish with a berry syrup http://t.co/OmkYyvCU
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- BabyBonanza
- RT @produceforkids: Yum! Great breakfast #recipe! RT @healthykids: Orange Waffles and All-Natural, Homemade, Creamy Orange Syrup http://t.co/SN1HIIyd
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- Sunkist
- RT @produceforkids: Yum! Great breakfast #recipe! RT @healthykids: Orange Waffles and All-Natural, Homemade, Creamy Orange Syrup http://t.co/SN1HIIyd
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- AnAngryHobbit
- Sounds delish! RT @czarbob: Ginger syrup recipe http://t.co/IJjW428W
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- eatwholly
- yum! Yum! Great breakfast #recipe! RT @healthykids: Orange Waffles and All-Natural, Homemade, Creamy Orange Syrup http://t.co/LMVO64qK
The Inspiration for This Lens
Lavender DRY Soda, 12pk
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 06/03/2012)
If you want something carbonated that isn't overly sweet and not your usual flavor, this is an interesting alternative to cola.
Pancake Batter Recipes
Pancakes to go with syrup!
What's Your Favorite Syrup?
And any other comments...
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lestroischenes Apr 28, 2012 @ 3:13 am | delete
- Well, these all sound wonderful. We were brought up on Golden Syrup, and here in France they sell some sort of syrup in bottles, but when I discovered that it was just burnt sugar, (I discovered it the hard way!!), I now make it myself. I just had no idea that it could be more than just 'burnt sugar'. I've added this to my Make Pancakes lens.
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COUNTRYLUTHIER
Apr 14, 2012 @ 9:37 pm | delete
- As a kid in Mississippi ( during the syrup dark ages decades ago), COUNTRYLUTHIER had molasses and syrup, and nothing flavored about em. This lens is great. I can have a flavor for each day of the week and beyond! Thanks for the inspiration and for sharing soooo much!!!
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Tipi
Apr 5, 2012 @ 10:32 am | delete
- Years ago my Mom's chokecherry jelly didn't set up for some reason and we were disappointed until we used it as syrup...it was the best ever! This is yummy and beautiful!
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RecipePublishing
Jul 24, 2011 @ 7:29 am | delete
- Wow, what a treat!
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RecipePublishing
Jul 20, 2011 @ 6:43 pm | delete
- I'd love to try a few of these with my kids!
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