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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Recipes / Drink Recipes / Beverage Recipes / Unrefined Simple Syrup Recipe

Unrefined Simple Syrup Recipe

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How to make your own simple syrup at home with an unrefined, whole sweetener to preserve important minerals and nutrients with no loss of flavor and sweetness! whole simple syrup drizzling into cold beverage

If you make your own cocktails at home or other cold drinks like sweetened iced tea, coffee, or lemonade, simple syrup makes the blending process much easier.

The trouble is, commercial simple syrups use refined sweeteners and a plethora of additives! Even organic brands use refined sweeteners labeled as “unbleached”. Translation: it’s still refined sugar!

Why not try your hand at making your own simple syrup? It’s quite easy to do. Simply dissolve the whole sweetener of your choice in filtered water and reduce to the desired thickness and consistency.

I like to use jaggery, a traditional sweetener from India and South America. The process of making it involves evaporating raw sugarcane or coconut nectar juice without separating any nutrients from the crystals. This preserves important minerals such as iron and calcium.

Choose coconut or cane jaggery based on your personal preference and dietary philosophy. For example, coconut palm jaggery is permitted on the Paleo diet, but cane jaggery is not.

Once you’ve made homemade simple syrup for the first time, I would venture to suggest that you will never buy commercial brands again!

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Unrefined Simple Syrup Recipe

Simple syrup recipe made with an unrefined, mineral-rich whole sweetener for homemade cocktails, iced tea or even drizzling on pancakes, waffles, or ice cream.

Keyword unrefined, whole food
Prep Time 3 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Calories 25 kcal
Author Sarah Pope

Ingredients

  • 1 cup jaggery powdered or grated; cane or coconut jaggery. Preferably organic
  • 1 cup filtered water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract optional

Instructions

  1. Mix water and jaggery in a small pot and turn the heat on to medium-high.

  2. Stir as the mixture warms until all the jaggery is dissolved. You will have about 1 and 1/2 cups of liquid at this point.

  3. Bring mixture to a boil, then turn the heat down to low to simmer until the jaggery syrup is thickened to the consistency of blackstrap molasses. Reducing by about one-half is a good rule of thumb.

  4. Remove from heat. Stir in optional vanilla. Cool to room temperature. Store in a small mason jar in the pantry or refrigerator.  

Recipe Notes

The jaggery syrup will thicken as it cools. If it becomes too solidified for your liking if you store in the refrigerator, simply warm on the stove and it will re-liquefy.

Nutrition Facts
Unrefined Simple Syrup Recipe
Amount Per Serving (0.25 ounce)
Calories 25
% Daily Value*
Carbohydrates 6g2%
Sugar 6g7%
Calcium 22.5mg2%
Iron 0.42mg2%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: Amazon #1 bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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  1. Robin

    Mar 4, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    I make honey syrup for cold drinks. Mix equal parts honey and room temperature filtered water (a fork works best). Store in a jar in the refrigerator. For hot drinks I use either palm sugar or maple syrup.

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