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Default When making a sugar syrup for Tom Collins'....

Jim Elbrecht > wrote in
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> On Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:46:05 GMT, Aussie
> > wrote:
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>>Make sure you keep and eye on it and don't let it turn into toffee ;-)
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>>http://tinypic.com/m/dyagpt/3
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>>http://tinypic.com/m/dyagpu/3
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>>Instead of chucking it and starting again, I just put it on a low heat,
>>added some more water anmd stirred like all buggery till the toffee
>>disolved and I got it back to a rather dark coloured syrup.
>>
>>Should be interesting in the Tom Collins I'm going to make shortly :-)

>
> I don't know how this will translate to Australian-- but perhaps
> you're making an 'Uncle' Tom Collins.
>




Nope, Tom Collins.........

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/19266/tom+collins

and here's a video to show the same recipe......

http://www.5min.com/Video/Tom-Collin...ecipe-97592664


Here's the 'Uncle' bit.......

http://stelliesjol.com/2010/08/28/uncle-tom-collins/


I don't use 'icing sugar'..... I use sugar syrup.



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