Friday, February 5, 2016

SYRUP / SIRAP

Basic recipe for syrup:

3 kg sugar
2 liters water

Method:

Put the sugar and water in a pot. Bring it to boil and let it simmer for 10 minutes. Let it cool and keep in sterilized bottles. Usually it could last for a month. 


Last week I made 3 different types of syrup. Calamansi syrup, mulberry syrup and pandan lemon grass syrup. The syrups were delicious.

Calamansi Syrup (Sirap Limau Kasturi)

3 kg sugar
1 liter water
500 ml calamansi juice (from about 2 kg of calamnsi)

Method:

Put the sugar, water and calamansi juice in a pot and bring it to boil. Simmer for about 10 mins and let it cool before you bottle it.

Pandan Lemongrass Syrup (Sirap Pandan dan Serai)

3 kg sugar
2 liter water
20 pieces pandan leaf 
10 stalk lemongrass (bruised)

Method:

To get the most flavour out of your pandan leaves and lemongrass, you need to bruised them by crushing them lightly using pestle or side of your cleaver.

Put everything in a pot and bring it to boil. Then let it simmer for 1/2 hour. Let it cool before bottling it.

Lemongrass mint soda

* 1 part syrup 
* 6 part cold water
* 3 part ice cream soda
* a handful of roughly chopped mint leaves


Mulberry Syrup

3 kg sugar
2 kg mulberries 
2 liters water

Blend the mulberries with the 2l water. Use fine sieve to extract the juice. 
Put the juice and sugar in a large pot. Bring it to boil. Then let it simmer for about 20 minutes. Let it cool before bottling it.