syrup
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Your Pancakes Need Apple Cider Syrup
Apple cider syrup is the dirty martini of pancake syrups. Pure maple syrup may be the delicate, classic choice, but there’s a certain kind of wayward satisfaction when you make a syrup out of something intended for drinking. This technique is dead simple, cheaper than real maple syrup, and gives you the concentrated snap of…
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Blend Spent Citrus Rinds Into a Cocktail Syrup
Citrus season may be over, but lemons and limes persist. Both fruits are widely used to add a little (or a lot) of acid to dishes and drinks, and both, once juiced, leave behind a shell of pith and zest. You can compost the spent rinds, or freeze and zest them later…or you can blend…
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Make the Best Pancake Syrup of Your Life With Apple Cider
Apple cider syrup is the dirty martini of pancake syrups. Pure maple syrup may be the delicate, classic choice, but there’s a certain kind of wayward satisfaction when you make a syrup out of something intended for drinking. This technique is dead simple, cheaper than real maple syrup, and gives you the concentrated snap of…
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How to Make Your Own Ranch Water
Before we hit legal drinking age, my best friend and I usually hung out with her older boyfriend and his older friends, mostly because they would share their (terrible) alcohol. I had yet to learn anything about cocktails, and we weren’t exactly in the position to be choosy, so we drank a lot of Captain…