Many culinary recipes include corn syrup in the structure. Usually this product is used in house sweeties for protection of delicacies from a zasakharivaniye and also added to dough that self-made pastries long didn't harden. However not always hostesses manage to find scarce ingredient in shops. There are ways of production of corn syrup in house conditions and also recipes of its imitations.
It is required to you
- Syrup on corn broth:
- - fresh corncobs (3 pieces);
- - water (1.5 l);
- - table salt (2 teaspoons);
- - granulated sugar (1 kg);
- - fresh juice of a lemon (3 tablespoons);
- - vanillin (10 g).
- Imitation of corn syrup:
- - granulated sugar (200 g);
- - water (80 ml);
- - citric acid (0.5 teaspoons);
- - baking soda on a knife tip.
Instruction
1. Clean corncobs and cut them circles couple centimeters thick. Put the crushed products in the enameled pan with cold water, bring to the boil then boil thoroughly them on small fire within 1-1.5 hours. Don't forget to stir pan contents from time to time. A half of liquid in ware has to boil away.
2. Remove ears, filter corn meal water through a small sieve and pour it in a clean pan. Add granulated sugar, table salt and vanillin to liquid, then carefully vent all ingredients. Blanch a fresh lemon in boiled water within three minutes then take for a drive him, strongly pressing a hand to a table surface. Make a deep longitudinal cut on the one side of a fruit and squeeze out the required quantity of a fresh juice in corn broth.
3. Put the container with the received mix on a plate and make on it small fire. It is necessary to cook corn syrup not less than one and a half-two, and sometimes and till three o'clock. Before removing a pan from a plate, it is necessary to check readiness of substance. For this purpose gain a small amount of sweet weight in a spoon and merge it back in ware a thin stream – it has to be heavy, dense, flow a continuous ribbon. Corn syrup resembles treacle or white honey superficially.
4. Make imitation of a confectionery product - an invert syrup. Thanks to its properties it will perfectly replace corn and will allow you to reduce time for preparation of a product considerably. For a start stir granulated sugar and citric acid in water, then put a pan with the received mix on fire and bring to the boil.
5. You cook syrup, periodically stirring slowly, 20 minutes. Switch off a plate and let's ware contents cool down a little. After that dissolve baking soda with a small amount of cool boiled water and pour it into syrup. Stir substance until it ceases to foam.