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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Walnut
  2. a glass of cold water
  3. One-half pound sugar
  4. one-half cup syrup
  5. Butter
Contains MilkTree nuts Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot sugar. Hot sugar sticks to skin and burns far hotter than boiling water: don't touch or taste it. Keep a bowl of cold water close, and keep children away while it cooks.

Method

  1. One-half pound sugar, one-half cup syrup, butter the size of a walnut ;
  2. add little water to the syrup, and have the sugar thoroughly dissolved ;
  3. to try it, drop a spoonful in a glass of cold water, if brittle, it is done.

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