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To Clarify Syrup Without Boiling

A clarified sugar syrup made by dissolving sugar in boiling water and filtering.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Clarify Syrup Without Boiling

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Break up the sugar and place it in a basin.

  2. Pour the boiling water over the sugar.

  3. Stir with a silver spoon until dissolved.

  4. Filter the mixture through a jelly bag into a basin.

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

Fine loaf sugar
Provides sweetness and body, dissolving into the water to form the syrup.
Boiling water
Dissolves the sugar quickly, forming the liquid base of the syrup.

The step that matters

Stir until the sugar is fully dissolved. Sugar grains left undissolved can stay in the syrup and later recrystallize, making it cloudy or grainy. Stirring until no grains remain gives a clear, smooth 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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