Name: Sirup of Sugar
Ingredients: 1 pound and 3/4 cup powdered double refined sugar; 1 pint water

Sirup of Sugar

Ingredients

1 pound and 3/4 cup powdered double refined sugar
1 pint water

Directions

Make the syrup

Place the sugar and water in a vessel set in a saucepan of water over heat.
Heat until the sugar is thoroughly dissolved and the syrup is formed.

Finish and store

After a few hours, remove any scum that forms.
Pour the syrup into a storage jar or bottle for use.

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

Powdered double refined sugar: Provides sweetness and dissolves in water to form the syrup.
Water: Dissolves the sugar so it can form 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.