Post #532834 by Dapuma1 on Fri, May 28, 2010 9:56 AM

I guess my question is more along the lines of...am i getting too much sweetness (which i am certainly) but also am i getting two much passion fruit flavor...i dont have anything to compare it to, so it is hard to try to "balance" the flavor when i dont have a benchmark

i was thinking about reducing the amount by 1/4 to 1/2 -- but it is hard to say where that line is...

On 2010-05-28 09:41, The Gnomon wrote:

On 2010-05-28 07:26, Dapuma1 wrote:
i have aunt liloki's syrup but it keeps overpowering my drinks

does anyone know approximatly how much i should cut the recipe by using her syrup

still makes a good drink a but a bit to sweet and too passion-y (if that is even a real word)

Though it is the best storebought I've found, Aunty's is on the sweet side. There are two approaches to take when making drinks:

1. If the recipe calls for RCS or simple syrup, you can pretty much just leave that out.
2. Modify the Aunty PF syrup.

If you reduce the amounts or leave out other syrups, the flavor is bound to change. If you leave out the Curaçao, for example, you'll have to replace it with something that retains the intense orange peel flavor with something else (such as orange zest). If you leave out the orgeat, well, you're rather screwed, because you'll have to replace it with the subtle flavors of almond, rose water, and orange blossom water. Leaving out RCS or simple syrup is the only one that does not require flavor enhancements as long as your RCS is not made to impart sugar flavors (mine has a turbinado flavor).

Possibly the easiest way to do the second approach is to order a bottle of Aunty PF juice when you get the PF syrup. Then you can add juice to the syrup until it reaches the right sweetness. As for the passiony effect, it should get even stronger, but in the absence of excessive sweetness, you might find its passiony nature to be just right.