​Ted’s Ginger Syrup
This is a very simple and easy to prepare syrup and can be used as a flavouring in all sorts of dishes including kombucha, baking and Asian stir-fry’s (in conjunction with soy sauce). It can also be used as a pancake topping to add a little zip to your morning. Kids’ love it!
What you’ll need
Ginger grater
A heat-proof bowl with pouring spout
Medium sized sauce pan
Colander
Filtered Water
Demerara sugar (or other natural sweetener such as honey)
Directions:
  • Grate about 2 cups worth of ginger into your sauce pan
  • Add about 4 cups of water
  • Turn on to medium-high heat until boiling
  • Turn down heat and allow to simmer for about 15-20 minutes
  • Remove from heat source and strain through colander into heat-proof bowl
  • Allow the colander to sit with the grated ginger until cool so that you can squeeze out the remaining ginger juice as this has the most flavour! Make sure it is cool enough to touch if using your hands!
  • Now take the ginger liquid and pour this back into your rinsed-out pot
  • Add about 4 cups of demerara sugar and place back on heat source--this is where you will be reducing the liquid (for more on how reduction works, click here)
  • Allow to cook on medium-high heat (depending on your stove) stirring occasionally to make sure nothing burns.
  • Once the liquid begins forming bubbles that take more than a few seconds to pop, your batch of ginger syrup is should be the right consistency. If you like thinner syrup decrease your cooking time. For thicker syrup place back on heat source.
  • Allow to cool and then pour into a bowl with a spout. From there you can store in whatever you like to use as a syrup dispenser.
  • Enjoy!