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Syrop de Gomme

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France

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

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. six pounds of sugar
  2. a half pint of water
  3. a pound of gum arabic

Cook safely

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

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Melt a pound of gum arabic in a half pint of water ;
  2. clarify six pounds of sugar with a little water ;
  3. put it in your gum, and let it boil up several times ;
  4. take it off, and when cold bottle it for use.
  5. Half the quantity is enough.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan