Home-made Maple Syrup
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
In a pot, stir sugar and hot water over medium heat until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Cover the pot and let it cook for about five minutes, or until slightly thickened.
Cool and flavour
Remove from heat and let it cool slightly.
Add Maple Extract, stir well, and set aside to cool completely.
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
- Provides sweetness and body, and thickens the syrup as it cooks down.
- Maple extract
- Adds the maple flavour and aroma to the syrup.
The step that matters
Dissolving the sugar completely before cooking. Undissolved sugar crystals can seed recrystallisation as the syrup cools, leaving it grainy. Stirring until fully dissolved before simmering gives a 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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