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Sugar Syrup

From Hints to housewives on how to buy, how to care for food, meats (1917).

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A historical recipe

Hints to housewives on how to buy, how to care for food, meats , by New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Food Supply (1917).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. two cups of sugar
  2. a half cup of water

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. Put two cups of sugar and a half cup of water into a saucepan on the fire.
  2. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then let it cook slowly without touching it for about 10 minutes, or until it is a clear syrup.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Hints to housewives on how to buy, how to care for food, meats (1917), printed page 12, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/hintstohousewive00newyrich

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.