A syrup is sweet, tasty, easy to make, and convenience to use for the tea, dessert or cakes. You can make many different types of syrup from all the ingredient you have at home. It might take from 5 minutes to 1h to make tasty syrup depend on your favorite ingredient. Remember the key recipe to make syrup is 1 sugar: 1 water : ½ herbs or 1 tsp spices. Today I will share with you how to make 6 simple homemade syrup from ready ingredients in your kitchen.
- Simple sugar syrup
- Vanilla syrup
- Ginger syrup
- Citrus syrup with lemon, lime or orange zest
- Spice syrup with cinnamon or clove
- Herbal syrup with mint, basil, rosemary, or thyme
Simple Sugar syrup
Let’s start with simple sugar syrup. All ingredients you need are sugar and water.
- ½ cup water
- 1 cup water
- Boil 1 cup of water in a small saucepan and bring the water to a boil.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add the sugar. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Cook until mixture thickens slightly about 3 minutes.
- When the syrup is finished you can remove the pan from the heat and let it cool down.
- When the syrup is cool completely. Pour into a clean glass jar and cap tightly. Store in the fridge and use as need. You can store the simple sugar syrup up to two or three weeks.
2. Vanilla syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 vanilla beans
- We can split the vanilla bean and scrape out the seeds while you are boiling the water.
- Split the vanilla bean down its length with the sharp knife on your cutting board.Use the dull side of your knife to scrape out the vanilla beans from the tip of the pod.
- Boil the water in the saucepan, When the water is ready, remove the pan from the heat and add sugar.
- Stir the sugar until it is completely dissolved and add vanilla beans and pods.
- Stir vanilla beans and pods for 1 minute and leave it cool down for 30 minutes.
3. Ginger syrup
You can reduce or add more ginger into a syrup as your taste. There are many different recipes about the amount of ginger you can use in making syrup. The biggest amount of ginger is 1 cup of fresh ginger slice and the smallest is 1 or 2 inch of ginger. In here I use 50gr of fresh ginger and my ginger syrup has a quite strong ginger's taste. I also pressed all the fresh ginger. If you don't like so strong ginger taste you can reduce ginger to 30gr or just cut ginger into slices not press it. Depend on your taste you can add or reduce the ginger. Remember the key ratio to make syrup is 1 cup water: 1 cup sugar.
- 1 cup water (250 ml)
- 50 gr fresh ginger
- 1 cup of sugar
- Boil the water in a small saucepan. When the water is ready you can put the ginger into a pan. Lower the heat and stir the ginger for 1 minute.
- Cover the pan with the lid and remove it from the heat. Let it cool down for 1 hour until the ginger water have the desired flavor intensity.
- Strain the mixture into another saucepan. Bring the ginger water to a boil over medium-high heat. Remove the pan from the heat and add the sugar. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Cool completely. Pour into a clean glass jar and cap tightly. Store in a fridge and used as need.
4. Citrus syrup with lemon, lime or orange peels
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup lemon, lime or orange zest (Peels of 3-4 oranges)
- 1 cup of sugar
- Boil the water until the water is boiling. When the water is ready we can lower the heat and add lemon/lime/ orange zest.
- Remove the pan from the heat. Cover the pan with the lid and let it stand for 1 hour.
- Strain the citrus zest water by the mesh strainer. Bring the water to a boil over medium-high heat.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add sugar. Stir sugar until it is completely dissolved.
- Cool down the syrup completely. Pour into a clean glass jar and cap tightly. - Store in a fridge and used as need.
5. Spice syrup
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon or 1 small cinnamon stick (9gr), 1 tsp ground clove
- 1 cup of sugar
- Boil the water and steep the cinnamon/ glove for 1 hour
- Strain the mixture recook the cinnamon water in another saucepan or a pot. Boil the water over the high-heat temperature.
- Remove the pan from the heat and add sugar. Stir the sugar until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Cool down the syrup and store syrup in the tight jar for 2-3 weeks in the fridge.
6. Herbal syrups- Mint syrup
We can use rosemary, mint, basil, and lavender to make aromatic syrup
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup of basil, mint, or rosemary
- 1 cup of sugar
- Boil the water until the boiling in a small saucepan. Add the mint/basil/ rosemary and simmer for 1 minutes.
- Add the sugar and stir until sugar dissolves.
Remove from heat and let syrup steep, about 30 minutes.
- Remove the herbs from the syrup. Pour syrup into a tight and you can keep the syrup for 2-3 weeks in the fridge.
Now you know how to make 6 simple syrup recipes for this winter. Let’s me know what is your favorite syrup recipes. Share with me what syrup you will make? Hope to hear from you and see you again in my next post.
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