Brown Sugar Syrup
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the water in a saucepan.
Once boiling hard, add the brown sugar.
Continue to boil until the mixture thickens.
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
- Brown sugar
- Provides sweetness and molasses flavour, and dissolves into the water to form the syrup.
- Water
- Dissolves the sugar so it can form a pourable liquid syrup as it boils.
The step that matters
Continue to boil until the mixture thickens. Boiling drives off water, so the syrup concentrates and thickens as it cools. Stopping too early leaves it thin, while boiling too long can make it set too firm.
“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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