Post #364950 by The Gnomon on Wed, Mar 5, 2008 10:45 AM

On 2008-03-04 16:19, badpelican wrote:

The way I found out about the quart jars of Aunty Lilikoi was that I asked her if she could ship it to me in a 55 gallon drum. She couldn't do that, but did offer me the undocumented quart jars.

When you get your AL PFS, you end up on a PF drink kick. I went through one quart in about a week. You have to force yourself to slow down.

I just got my first shipment from Aunty Lilikoi recently. It does make a fine drink. I was wondering though, it is made from PF juice and pectin (and water too I beleive) as opposed to PF juice and sugar syrup... Do you think a little extra simple syrup would be needed to add the same "sweetness" or is the sugar content of the PF juice itself enough to get the proper result without any added sugars?

Did you ever drink unsweetened passion fruit juice? Basically, it's a tart as a lemon or lime; probably moreso. Suffice it to say, it will make you pucker up and make a shriveled up face.

Actually, water and sugar are the most abundant ingredients in Aunty Lilikoi Passion Fruit Syrup. Next comes the passion fruit juice. Pectin is last and is used as a stablizing agent in certain foods. In food labeling, ingredients have to be listed in order of prominence in the product. Whatever is included in the largest quanity compared to the other ingredients is listed first, and so on down the line.

Anyway, I would not advocate any additional sugar. In fact, as I mentioned before, if you use AL PFS in a drink that typically calls for Rock Candy Syrup as well, you can leave out the RCS.