Home Made Lemon Syrup
I intend to have a go at this syrup over the weekend. Ingredients: grated rind and juice of 1 kg/2lb (about 8 lemons) grated rind and juice of 2 oranges 1kg/2lb granulated sugar 1.2 litres/2 pints of water 2 x 15ml/ 2 tablespoons of citric acid Method Put the grated rinds into a large saucepan then add the sugar and water and bring to the boil slowly stirring to dissolve the sugar. Pour the squeezed fruit juices into a large heatproof bowl or jug then pour on the boiling syrup; then stir in the citric acid. Leave to cool. Strain and then pour into prepared sterilised bottles leaving about 2.5cm/1/2 inch to 1 inch headspace in the top of the bottle. The bottles then can be processed using the heat process or by Campden solution. I prefer to hot water process the bottles rather than adding anything further to the product. Please see my post here as to how to go about it. http://tarragonnthyme.blogspot.com/2012/01/sterilising-bottles-or-jars-by-...