Sugar Syrup
Ingredients
Directions
Mix sugar and boiling water until the sugar is dissolved.
Boil for 10 minutes.
Cool and bottle the syrup.
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
- Sugar
- Provides sweetness and body, and dissolves into the water to form the 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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