Sugar syrup

Everyone uses syrup when eating desserts such as ice jelly and cold cakes, and the uses of syrup are also diverse. Syrup can also be used when making dishes. When making syrup, white sugar is mainly used, so it is also feasible to use white sugar to make syrup at home. If you like to eat food made with syrup, let’s take a look at the method of making syrup with white sugar.

1. How to make syrup with sugar

Syrup is a thick, highly concentrated solution of sugar made by boiling or other techniques. The raw materials for making syrup can be sugar water, sugarcane juice, fruit juice or other plant juice. Since the syrup has a very high sugar content, it can be stored for a relatively long time if it is sealed without refrigeration. Syrup can be used to make drinks or desserts.

Use a pound of sugar and put it in the pot. Make sure the pot is cold and heat it on low heat for about five minutes. Heat the sugar until it turns yellow and then add water, add 0.4 to 0.5 pounds of water. Heat it again on low heat for 10 minutes and the sugar will melt naturally. At this time, you can dip the chopsticks and pull the shreds into perfect strips. Generally, the consistency is very good. If you want it to be thinner, just add some boiling water.

I think everyone should be familiar with syrup, right? Speaking of syrup, everyone will think of cough. Some special cough syrups are effective for coughs. There are many types of cough syrups now, and the more famous ones are probably the acute bronchitis syrup and so on. As the name suggests, syrup contains a large amount of sugar and water. Of course, some people don't like the large amount of sugar in syrup.

2. How to eat white sugar

People (especially infants and the elderly) should not dip food into raw white sugar when eating. The correct way to eat it is to heat it at high temperature for 3 to 5 minutes before eating.

Proper consumption helps improve the body's absorption of calcium, but excessive consumption will hinder calcium absorption. Rock sugar nourishes yin and produces body fluid, moistens the lungs and relieves cough. It has a good auxiliary therapeutic effect on dry cough, dry cough without sputum, and sputum with blood. Although brown sugar contains more impurities, its nutrients are better retained. It has the effects of invigorating qi, relieving stomach discomfort, helping the spleen to digest food, replenishing blood and removing blood stasis, and also has the effect of dispelling cold and relieving pain. Therefore, women who suffer from dysmenorrhea caused by cold and physical weakness or after childbirth often have significant effects by drinking some brown sugar water.

3. Consumption of white sugar

Sugar is a nutrient, but it should be controlled within a certain amount. How much sugar is appropriate for a person to eat in a day? The consensus abroad is that it should be controlled at around 0.5 grams per kilogram of body weight per day. That is to say, a child weighing 20 kg should not exceed 10 grams per day, and an adult weighing 60 kg should take about 30 grams per day. Therefore, we should usually control the sugar content in food to avoid excessive intake.

Effects of white sugar on food

1. Cooking fish makes it easier to shape. When frying fish fillets or making fish balls, add some sugar to prevent the fish fillets and fish balls from getting mushy.

2. To prevent the fish from sticking to the pan, when frying fish, add a small amount of sugar when the oil is almost hot. When the sugar turns slightly yellow, put the fish into the pan. The fish fried in this way is not only non-sticky but also delicious;

3. Eliminate the sour taste of dishes. When cooking with soy sauce, the sugar in the soy sauce will be decomposed, and the dishes cooked often have a sour taste. If you add some sugar, the sour taste can be eliminated;

4. Make the mushrooms taste better. After washing and cutting the mushrooms, soak them in sugar water for a while. This will make the mushrooms absorb water quickly and keep their fragrance. Also, because the mushrooms are soaked in sugar, they will taste more delicious after cooking.

5. Shorten the fermentation time. Adding some sugar during the fermentation can shorten the fermentation time and make the noodles soft and delicious.

6. Peel off the inner skin of chestnuts. Before cooking chestnuts, soak them in sugar water overnight. The cooked chestnuts will be easier to peel off the inner skin.