[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest Jadwiga's Ginger Syrup recipe

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> Oooooooooooh. this is one I missed!1 Recipe please?
> 

Lemon-ginger syrup... note, while syrups and jalabs can be documented to 
period, this one isn't a documented example:

2.5 cups water
4 cups sugar

Dissolve together and bring to a boil, while you begin peeling and 
chopping up a 4-5" long piece of fresh ginger.

When sugar mixture reaches a boil, add 1 cup lemon juice and reduce to a 
simmer. Add ginger as it becomes peeled and cut up (I cut mine into 1/4" 
thick slices and then into 1/2" dice to make candy of later). 

Simmer mixture until reduced by about 1/3.

Remove from heat, cover, and leave overnight.

Strain out pieces of ginger and bottle. (You can boil the ginger pieces 
in soft-ball-stage sugar syrup for candied ginger).

To serve, mix to taste with water (about 1 part syrup to 6-8 parts 
water).

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