[Sca-cooks] Ginger Syrup for "Dayboard"

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

A prowled through the Florilegium, sneaking through the dark, 
occasionally surprised by bright flashes of light, finding, among 
many other useful and/or interesting files Jadwiga's Dayboard 
Adventure Saga.

This interested me:

>Ginger Syrup:
>Peel a big hunk of ginger and mince. (About 2/3 c. per batch) Mix 
>2.5 cups water with 4 cups sugar. Bring to a boil. Add 1 cup lemon 
>juice and reduce heat. Add several spoonfuls of the ginger. Simmer 
>until reduced by 1/6. Add rest of ginger. Simmer until reduced by 
>about 1/3 from start. Cool. Strain & bottle. To use, dilute about 8 
>to 1 with water (or pour over vanilla ice cream. :))

I'm reading all the references to reduction, but i'm not visualizing 
well. How much syrup did this make? I read that you made a total of 
1-1/2 gallons. I just want to figure out how many of these batches 
i'd need to make to suit the Inter-Principality War... also, i need 
to find out how many folks generally attend, knowing that, what, may 
1/3 will partake of our offerings...

Anahita
who cooked most of a feast for 150 at home and then took it to the 
event for another local anomaly - a feast at a Kingdom camping event.