Stir it up with Simple Syrup
>> Saturday, 24 October 2009
Are you tired of stirring and waiting for the sugar to dissolve in your drinks? Do you dislike the “raw” sugar taste your drinks have when you sweeten them with the actual sugar? If you do, then Simple Syrup will become your new best friend. Read this week's column and find out about the various degrees of thicknesses for Simple Syrup, how easy it is to make and what a time saver it is!
Simple Syrup can also be flavoured to enhance everthing you want to use it in or on. Click here for my table of Simple Syrup flavour combinations that you can make right in your own kitchen!
I use two types of sugars for my Simple Syrup and use them depending on the look of the final product that I want. So, I make the traditional Simple Syrup with granulated sugar and a brown simple syrup with the excellent brown sugar that is produced right here in the Caribbean.
Add a little natural sweetness to your life with Simple Syrup! And have a great weekend everybody!
44 comments:
Seeing those pictures i do wish summer was back.
Simple and satisfying! Perfect.
This is a great kitchen help... thanks :)
With the festive season around the corner,I think having a bottle or two of this syrup would be a clever idea....
How funny-- I've been on a syrup kick this year too! Last winter I made a bunch of cranberry simple syrup to make cranberry cosmos (and left the berries in the martini glasses because they were so pretty). I used up the plethora of lemon basil in my garden to make lemon basil syrup, which I used with lime, rum and soda water to make mojitos. Next I tried rosemary syrup- really good with gin! My latest adventure has been chopped ginger root syrup, which I just add straight to soda water with a bit of lime for a sweet treat.
Such fun-- I can't wait to try out all your other combinations!
All of the pictures are beautiful. Would love to try some of those drinks.
Very useful! I love your pictures!
Cheers,
Rosa
Cynthia this look awesome and delicious! gloria
really nice post - so helpful and so perfect.
I think I made simple syrup this year for the first time. Can't understand what took me so long!! Of course, your photos make me think of mojitos - Oh Yum!
That's a lot of syrup, sweet :)
Wow Cynthia...lovely post! I loved your flavour table :) Will try it out sometime. Thanks.
I love making simple syrups with ruit. However I never comsidered one with brown sugar. Must try,
WOW...just what I need to do Cynthia. Constantly stirring to ger fresh lime juice for the kids when they come back from school. Love the brown sugar one too...YUM!!
Flavoring the simple syrup sounds too good ! All drink pict are fabulous!
You'd never have decent iced tea without it! :)
Couldn't have been simpler and more useful! Thanks for sharing. Your pictures are so beautiful!
hey girl, have saved your list of syrupy options. being in india , it never occurred to me that one could concoct such a variety in syrup. for me, syrup is sugar syrup that we make up in different consistencies to soak our traditional sweetmeats in
Didn't know about that...but what a great tip.
Thanks
love the pictures!! sound delicious!
Beatiful liquid creations..
Lovely idea and so much better than bottled cordial! I'll definitely be trying out some of these come summer time.
The limeade looks so refreshing! It's making me pucker just looking at it. :-)
Thanks for the information and the chart on flavored simple syrups. I've only used a basic simple syrup in my granita recipes from Giada DeLaurentes.
What a neat & great idea !!
Thanks!!
Yes I am tired of stirring endlessly my glass to dissolve sugar :-) but never never on your beautiful photos ! thanks for the tip!!
Brown sugar syrup sounds like a must try!
I want YOU for my bartender. What an interesting column. I NEVER thought of brown sugar simple syrup, but why not? It's a great idea.
Those pictures should hang in a museum, they're so beautiful.
i just emailed this to my friend--I just had an argument with her about using simple syrups in drinks. thanks you, i will win the argument.
Just perfect!!! summer is near here down south, so it's time for me to keep this great idea in the fridge. Big hugs my dear
I'm thirsty just looking at your photo's Cynthia. Refreshing to say the least!
Make my drink with just a splash of syrup. More alcohol (trying to watch my waist). ;)
Now that is a great idea. I am off to your column and the other link to read more about this. I am intrigued. :)
Hey Cynthia how are you?
I love all of the pictures, so tasty!
I like making all kinds of syrups too, I generally don't measure for syrup unless it is for a recipe.
It is a great idea to use syrup in drinks instead of sugar. :-)
What a wonderful idea Cynthia! Simple, but someone had to jog me into doing this! thanks!!
Simple syrup, I sure will make it...looks fantastic and so "flexible". By the way, great pictures :-)
Great reminder of a simple but essential bar aid.
I love all kind of syrup and your look sinful as always.
I'm getting thirsty just looking at this. :)
beautiful pictures! refreshing drinks!
I like your blog.
Love the pictures!!
sound delicious!
Margot
Cynthia,
wow! gorgeous pics these are ...
and simple syrup will save my day ..such a neat idea...
hugs and smiles
just in time for our hot days ahead in melbourne!!
Fabulous chart of flavors, Cynthia.
Simple syrup really is the best for cocktails, although I do keep a box or two of bartender sugar in the house.
I adore simple syrup; my mojitos will never be the same---I always use mint-infused simple syrup... and my kids use the leftovers for Italian sodas;).
See here: http://www.talkoftomatoes.com/2006/10/16/italian-sodas-not-for-kids-only/
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