Simple syrup or superfine sugar? - Tiki Drinks and Food

K KuKuAhu Member Kahiki, Ohio Joined: Dec 23, 2002 Posts: 567	K KuKuAhu Posted posted on Mon, Jan 30, 2006 3:20 PM Ah... I love threads like these, and I just have to weigh in (pun intended). Jab, it seems to me that the simple/gomme/rock candy syrup recipe varies all over the place, which makes it difficult at best to find your equivalency. Personally, I have always followed a weight measured vs. cups recipe. In other words, 2 lbs of sugar to one cup of water. This is the only recipe I know of for simple syrup, and it is the one I have always followed. It also works flawlessly every time. It is standard in many of my old bartending books. Now in that case, we can get a ratio based on the weight if we measure the liquid the recipe creates. I have yet to measure it though, but you could make a batch and see. You know you have 2 lbs of sugar in the solution, so all you'd need to do is find out how many ounces of liquid the recipe makes. This would give you a "sugar by weight per ounce of liquid" measurement to use for making drinks with super fine sugar. Just be sure to measure your superfine by weight as well before you make the conversion to liquid measure like tablespoons or whatever. The reason being that superfine will compact due to it's smaller particle size, and one Tbs of superfine would contain more sugar by weight than granulated sugar would. Dig? Ahu

Ah... I love threads like these, and I just have to weigh in (pun intended).

Jab, it seems to me that the simple/gomme/rock candy syrup recipe varies all over the place, which makes it difficult at best to find your equivalency.

Personally, I have always followed a weight measured vs. cups recipe. In other words, 2 lbs of sugar to one cup of water. This is the only recipe I know of for simple syrup, and it is the one I have always followed. It also works flawlessly every time. It is standard in many of my old bartending books.

Now in that case, we can get a ratio based on the weight if we measure the liquid the recipe creates. I have yet to measure it though, but you could make a batch and see. You know you have 2 lbs of sugar in the solution, so all you'd need to do is find out how many ounces of liquid the recipe makes. This would give you a "sugar by weight per ounce of liquid" measurement to use for making drinks with super fine sugar.

Just be sure to measure your superfine by weight as well before you make the conversion to liquid measure like tablespoons or whatever. The reason being that superfine will compact due to it's smaller particle size, and one Tbs of superfine would contain more sugar by weight than granulated sugar would.

Dig?

Ahu

Post #211518 by KuKuAhu on Mon, Jan 30, 2006 3:20 PM