Demerara Syrup
Demerara syrup is a rich, amber-coloured syrup made from Demerara sugar. The mellow caramel-like flavour pairs well with coffee and it's a common ingredient in cocktails. Just 2 ingredients are needed and it's ready in 5 minutes. Makes approx 250ml.
Servings: 25 servings (10ml)
Calories: 24kcal
Ingredients
- 150 g Demerara Sugar
- 150 ml Water
Instructions
- Put the Demerara sugar and water into a saucepan.
- Heat gently, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon, until the sugar dissolves.
- Turn up the heat and bring to simmering point then immediately remove the pan from the heat.
- Let the syrup cool completely and decant into a bottle.
Notes
- Storage: Keep your Demerara simple syrup in a sealed bottle or jar in the fridge. It will stay fresh for 4 weeks, if not longer.
- Measure accurately: If the ratio of sugar to water is out then it could be sweeter/ less sweet than it should be. This will impact the final result of any recipe you follow that includes Demerara simple syrup.
- Don't boil it: Boiling your syrup will make it thicken and it will be harder to mix into cold ingredients.
- Rich Demerara syrup: Make an extra thick, rich and flavoursome Demerara simple syrup by using 2 parts sugar to 1 part water (in this recipe that is 300g sugar to 150ml water).
- Vanilla Demerara sugar syrup: Stir a teaspoon of vanilla extract into your syrup once it has cooled.
- Cinnamon Demerara simple syrup: Add a cinnamon stick to the pan and leave it to infuse in the syrup as it cools down.
Nutrition
Calories: 24kcal | Carbohydrates: 6g | Sodium: 0.5mg | Potassium: 2mg | Sugar: 6g | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 0.02mg
