Simple Syrup
TIME/SERVINGS
Total: 5 mins, plus cooling time
Active: 5 mins
Makes: 2 cups
By Nick Mautone
Use this bar staple in our Basic Iced Tea or, if you want something spiked, in the Irish Fix.
Game plan: This can be made weeks in advance and stored in a very clean container in the refrigerator.
INGREDIENTS
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup water
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place sugar and water in a small saucepan and stir to combine. Bring to a gentle boil over medium-high heat.
- Reduce heat and simmer until sugar is completely dissolved and syrup is slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool.
- Transfer syrup to a container with a tight-fitting lid, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use.
COMMENTS | ADD YOUR OWN
Add some fresh mint?
If the sugar is going to be used for iced tea and other drinks
This is not simple syrup.
Simple syrup ALWAYS uses a ratio of 1:1.
This syrup uses a 2:1 ratio, the ratio for making caramel.
But please do not confuse this sugar syrup here with simple syrup, a classic and standarized recipe in every pastry and commercial kitchen. Call it sugar syrup.
yeah agreed this is totally wrong
Sorry to disappoint you two, but the ratio of syrup is way more complicated then that.
There's a lot of possible combinations of heating procedures and ratios that give the many (simplyfied 7(!) ) different "syrups" or better different states of sugar. One of them is infact caramel. You don't use a sugar hydrometer for nothing...keywords "degree baumé" or "degree brix"
And by the way isn't the ratio for "bar syrup" generally 2:1 ?