{"id":1145,"date":"2018-02-13T19:38:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2018-02-13T19:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T01:38:46","slug":"pancake-syrup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/pancake-syrup-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancake syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my experiments with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/24\/treacle\/\">treacle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/28\/update-to-dark-treacle\/\">dark treacle<\/a>, I decided to take on pancake syrup. With genuine maple syrup being quite expensive, and commercial pancake syrups being mainly high fructose corn syrup, I wanted something with ingredients I have in my pantry.<\/p>\n<p>One problem with the cheater pancake syrups on sites like Allrecipes is that they almost always re-crystallise, so I thought Id have a go with the golden syrup technique. Oh, yes, I am on a winner here: came out perfect, and no crystallisation after 24 hours!<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<li>1lb white sugar<\/li>\n<li>1.5 cups water<\/li>\n<p>Add the sugar and the water to a saucepan. Bring to a full, rolling boil then add<\/p>\n<li>1\/4 teaspoon citric acid (check the exotic ingredients section of your local grocery store) OR <strong>substitute<\/strong> 1\/4 lemon<\/li>\n<p>Reduce the syrup to a low simmer for 40 minutes. This will allow the citric acid \/ lemon juice to invert the sugar syrup, which means no crystallisation. Take the pot off the heat then add:<\/p>\n<li>1 teaspoon vanilla flavouring<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 teaspoon maple flavouring (optional)<\/li>\n<p>Decant into a glass jar that has been thoroughly pre-heated with not quite boiling water. Serve generously over pancakes, waffles, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my experiments with treacle and dark treacle, I decided to take on pancake syrup. With genuine maple syrup being quite expensive, and commercial pancake syrups being mainly high fructose corn syrup, I wanted something with ingredients I have in my pantry. One problem with the cheater pancake syrups on sites like Allrecipes is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-living","category-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.addictedtocanning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}