Make Your Own Dazzling Gourmet Syrups
I'ved edited the Web to give you some interesting syrup recipes. 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.
Image entitled Fun With Syrup is courtesy of *runique on DeviantArt.
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
Making Simple Syrup
Most syrups are variations of Simple Syrup
Fruit Syrups
Chocolate and Vanilla Syrups
Herb Syrups
Hard to Find Ingredients
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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
- Gingerbread House (Daring Bakers Challenge Dec 09) « creative ...
- If the syrup crystallizes, remake it. Adaptation of a recipe by Antoinette Savill taken from The Gluten, Wheat & Dairy Free Cookbook. Gluten-Free Gingerbread. 2 tbsp golden syrup. 55g dairy free margarine. 20g sugar ...
- Quick & Easy Gingerbread Man Recipe | Lingzie's Tummy Treats
- Easy idiot proof gingerbread man recipe that's perfect for Christmas! No mixer or fancy oven required! ... 1 tbsp golden syrup. 1 tbsp treacle (we didn't have this so we just added 2 tbsp of golden syrup instead). 1/2 tbsp milk (we didn't have this either so we used water). 1 egg yolk, beaten. Directions: 1. Preheat microwave oven on Convection mode to 180degrees Celcius (or check what mode your microwave oven should be on for baking cookies) ...
- Indian food, Andhra recipes and Global cuisine inspired cooking ...
- Its all in the sugar syrup consistency. nariyal-burfi · kobbari-burfi. Cooked coconut-sugar mixture spread out on greased thali ~ Kobbari Louz. Kobbari Paakam Recipe. Preparation: 15 mts Cooking Time: 40 mts. Makes approx 15-16 squares ...
- Pistachio Semolina Honey Cake Recipe @ CDKitchen.com :: it's ...
- Prepare The Syrup: Stir 1 cup honey, water, and lemon juice into a 1-quart saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Boil until reduced by half -- about 10 minutes. Cool to room temperature. Soak The Cake: Using a toothpick or skewer ...
Grenadine syrup is flavored with pomegranate.
Syrupy Tweets
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- Saintless
- @jesscot I found a light corn syrup substitute recipe! http://bit.ly/7Xono5
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- Nopaltilla
- Prickly Pear Juice Syrup Recipe http://bit.ly/4OFHam
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- daughterofpriam
- So, if you ever have a recipe requiring pomegranate syrup (like fesenjan), it's just grenadine.
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- memoija
- help! does anybody have a corn syrup-free recipe for marshmallows? can't get corn syrup here, and it's bad for you anyway. please!
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- OSuzie
- @rblindahl Not a big family secret recipe! I use the one from Karo Syrup! http://tinyurl.com/6ezylv I sometimes add a little rum though!
The Inspiration for This Lens
Lavender DRY Soda, 12pk
Amazon Price: $12.00 (as of 12/23/2009)
If you want something carbonated that isn't overly sweet and not your usual flavor, this is an interesting alternative to cola.
Local Grounds
the second inspiration for this lens
What's Your Favorite Syrup?
And any other comments...
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- Winter52 Winter52 Jun 28, 2009 @ 7:11 am
- I had no idea that you could make THAT MANY syrups. We grew up with "real" maple syrup and didn't realize how lucky we were! You suddenly have me thinking about my kitchen lol... the room I don't visit all that often. I think that I'm in the mood!
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- WhiteOak50 WhiteOak50 Jun 5, 2009 @ 1:26 pm
- This is a great lens! I am lensrolling it over to several of my lens. I cannot wait to try the flower syrups and herb syrups.
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- JustBon-Crochet-Designs JustBon-Crochet-Designs Jun 2, 2009 @ 5:13 pm
- Great lens, with some variations on syrup I wasn't aware of. 5*s
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- AndyPo AndyPo Jun 2, 2009 @ 4:19 am
- Great lens. Sounds delicious
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- sandyspider sandyspider Jun 2, 2009 @ 1:07 am
- Yummy lens. This offers ideas to ingredients one would not even think of.
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