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Default Substitute for corn syrup?


"Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply" > wrote in
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> JMF wrote:
>> Here in Italy there doesn't seem to be any corn syrup available. Any good
>> substitutes?

>
> If you have Golden Syrup -- the British product -- that would probably be
> a decent equivalent, or if you have rice syrup (they have it in health
> food stores here) that might work. But what would work best really
> depends on how much you are using and what it is being used for. What's
> the recipe you need to substitute it in?


It's for a chocolate glaze for a cake. Corn syrup does such a nice job of
making the consistency smooth, so if there's a way to substitute it, then it
would be worth it to give it a try. Unfortunately no Golden Syrup here ...

Thanks,

John