To Boil Sugar
Ingredients
Directions
Make the syrup
Combine sugar and water in a pot.
Stir over medium heat until sugar is completely dissolved.
Boil and skim
When it begins to boil, add a little cold water.
Once it boils again, remove from heat.
Let it settle for 10 minutes and skim off any foam.
Finish
Boil for 30 minutes or a little longer before adding fruit.
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
- Sweetens the syrup and thickens it as water boils off.
The step that matters
Dissolve the sugar fully before boiling. Undissolved sugar crystals can seed recrystallization during boiling, leaving the finished syrup grainy instead of smooth.
“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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