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Simple Syrup

A clear syrup made by dissolving cane sugar in cold water.

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

Simple Syrup

Ingredients

Directions

Set up

  1. Set up a large barrel with a faucet on a box to fit a 1‑gallon measure underneath.

  2. Place a wash tub over the barrel, bore 50 small holes in the bottom, and line it with cheese cloth.

  3. Cover the top of the barrel with fine cheese cloth and place the tub over it.

Make the syrup

  1. Pour 9 gallons of cold water over 100 lbs of cane sugar in the tub.

  2. Cover the tub to keep dust out and allow the syrup to drip through the cheese cloth until clear.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Cane sugar
Provides the sweetness and dissolves into the water to form the syrup.
Cold water
Dissolves the sugar and carries it through the filter as 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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