Daily Messenger. Canandaigua, New York. 25 July 1930. P. 8. Barley Malt Syrup is a very sticky, dark brown syrup made from malted barley. It tastes a bit like molasses, but without any harsh taste. It is not as sweet as honey, and only half as sweet as white sugar (sucrose.) Some brands may add…
Syrups
Birch Syrup
Birch Syrup © Denzil Green Birch Syrup is a syrup made from the sap of birch trees. It is a dark, sweet syrup that is about 70% sugar, with a hint of a spicy flavour to it and a light caramel taste. Its slight bittersweet notes give it a more complex, less cloyingly sweet taste…
Brown Rice Syrup
Brown Rice Syrup is an amber-coloured syrup with a slight butterscotch flavour, made from rice. It has about half the sweetness of white sugar (sucrose) and one-third the sweetness of honey. The rice is cooked, fermented with enzymes to free up the starches, then strained and the liquid is simmered until thick. Some brands add…
Cane Syrup
Cane Syrup is a thick, sweet syrup made from sugarcane juice, boiled down. It can be pale or dark. The sugarcane is allowed to grow as long as possible before any frost occurs. The harvested canes can be held for up to 1 month before squeezing them, providing they’re not allowed to freeze. The juice…
Chocolate Syrup
Chocolate syrup is a thick, sweetened sauce flavoured with chocolate. Mint-flavoured varieties are also available. It can be used to make chocolate milk, as a topping for ice cream, or in baking. Most commercial bottled or canned chocolate syrups are made with corn syrup. More expensive kinds are not. Not all brands of chocolate syrup…
Coconut Syrup
Coconut Syrup is a sweetened, coconut-flavoured, opaque white syrup used in mixed drinks and in desserts, or as in Hawaii, used on pancakes and waffles. It is usually made from sugar, water, creamed coconut, citric acid and preservatives. It can be made in a variety of ways. It can be a sugar syrup flavoured with…
Cordials
Cordials are sweet, distilled spirits, often brightly coloured. Their name comes from the Latin word for heart, with the idea being that a Cordial was something that would medicinally do you good, by stimulating the heart and the circulation. They were both sold by apothecaries, and made at home. Different kinds were thought to have…
Fig Syrup
Fig syrup is a sweet syrup made from dried figs. Cheaper brands may just be sugar syrups with added figs for flavour. Cooking Tips Good on desserts, pancakes, and drizzled on wedges of blue cheese or pieces of foie gras History Notes Fig Syrup was being made in the Middle East as far back as…
Golden Syrup
Lyle’s Golden Syrup © Denzil Green Golden Syrup is made by boiling down sugar cane juice, after the sugar that is going to crystallize has been removed, until it is a thick, amber syrup. Some flavouring and colouring may be added. Ounce for ounce, It is not as sweet as sugar because it contains some…
Gum Syrup
Gum Syrup is increasingly confused with “Simple Syrup” (aka “Sugar Syrup.”)Gum Syrup is Simple Syrup, but with gum Arabic added. This addition helps to keep the sugar in suspension, while adding a silky, smoother quality to the syrup. About 100g of gum Arabic is used per litre of syrup. Some manufacturers now use glycerin instead…
Khus Syrup
Khus Syrup is a dark green syrup with a sweet, woodsy flavour and scent. It is made from an extract from the roots of vetiver grass (Vetiveria zizanoides), aka “khus” grass. This extract, called “Khus Essence”, is added to a sugar, water and citric acid syrup. Commercial brands may not contain any real khus grass…
Maple Syrup
Maple syrup is a viscous liquid sweetener produced from the sap of maple trees. It has a pronounced taste that is also complex and nuanced.
Nectar Syrup
Nectar Syrup is made and used in New Orleans. It has an almond-cherry flavour or almond-vanilla flavour. Some people taste one, some the other. Some find the taste reminiscent of the syrup in a jar of North American maraschino cherries. You can buy it in bottles in New Orleans, or make it yourself. Nectar Syrup…
Pancake Syrup
Pancake Syrup © Denzil Green Usually based on corn syrup, Pancake Syrups are meant to taste something like maple syrup and to be put on (North American style) pancakes. Though it is fashionable to knock Pancake Syrup as being a “cheap imitation of maple syrup”, these syrups can be tasty in their own right, are…
Rock Candy Syrup
Rock Candy Syrup is a sweeter, thicker version of simple syrup. It’s made from 2 parts sugar, 1 part water, brought to a boil, lowered to a simmer and simmered for 5 minutes, then removed from the heat and allowed to cool.
Rose Syrup
Rose Syrup is made from either rose hips or rose petals. To make it from rose petals, you let then infuse in a sugar syrup. To make it from rose hips, the rose hips are simmered in water, then mashed, strained and the liquid used to make the sugar syrup from. Many versions add artificial…
Stages of Cooked Sugar Syrups for Candy – Temperature Guide
Much of candy-making starts with making a syrup from sugar and water, and then cooking it to certain temperatures depending on the candy being made. All of the temperatures required are over 100 C, which at first seems impossible because the boiling temperature of water is 100 C and it can’t get any hotter. What…
Sugar Syrup
Sugar Syrup © Denzil Green A Sugar Syrup, aka Simple Syrup, is made from equal parts of white sugar and water. You mix the two, bring them to a boil, lower the pan to a simmer, and simmer for five minutes, then remove from heat to cool. If a recipe wants a thinner or a…
Swedish Light Syrup
Swedish Light Syrup is made from beet sugar, with some salt added.. There are two kinds, light (“ljus sirap”), which is used as a topping and in cooking, and dark (“mörk sirap “), which is used as an ingredient in cooking. Substitutes For the light, you can substitute light corn syrup, or golden syrup.
Syrups
Syrups are sticky, sweet liquid ranging from somewhat thick to very thick. They are often flavoured. They are based on some form of sugar and water. The sugar doesn’t necessarily come from sugar cane, and isn’t necessarily sucrose. Depending on the syrup, it can be used at the table as a topping, in the kitchen…