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Syrup

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United Kingdom

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

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. Wine
  2. Spirit
  3. 2 lbs. of sugar
  4. Water
Contains Sulphites Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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. Orange-flower water to Put the capsicin and gingerin into a mortar and triturate with the spirit ;
  2. then stir in the glycerine, next the caramel and syrup.
  3. Dissolve the acid in the orange-flower water (previously brought to the noil), and finally add this solution to the mixture.
  4. To be put up in 4-oz.
  5. bottles, the contents of which, with 2 lbs.
  6. of sugar and 2 winebottlefuls of water, will make ginger-wine.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Mortar and pestle
  • Wooden spoon