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To Prepare the Syrup

A clear sugar syrup made by dissolving sugar in boiling water and clarifying.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Prepare the Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pour boiling water over the sugar.

  2. Stir until all sugar is dissolved.

  3. Strain the mixture through double thickness butter muslin.

  4. Clarify the syrup by following the same method as clearing jelly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Sugar
Dissolves in the hot water to form a sweet, pourable syrup.
Boiling water
Dissolves the sugar quickly and carries it evenly into a liquid syrup.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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