Golden Syrup in England?!
Answers: can anyone from england please tell me what golden syrup is
A delicious sugary sweet syrup, a lot like Maple Syrup. It is made by Tate and Lyle, a British sugar refining company.
Golden Syrup is a very flexible cooking ingredient, (look for recipies on the Tate and Lyle website) as well as a simple sandwich filler.
It's nothing like maple syrup! I'm Canadian and I know maple syrup which we have a lot of here. Golden syrup is more like corn syrup but a bit darker. A good substitute in a recipe is corn syrup with a dash of molasses added. We can get golden syrup in Canada. I find it rather tasteless.
Golden syrup is a thick, amber-colored form of inverted sugar syrup, made in the process of refining sugar cane juice into sugar, or by treatment of a sugar solution with acid. It is used in a variety of baking recipes and desserts. It has an appearance similar to honey, and is often used as a substitute for people who cannot eat honey and those who choose not to (such as vegans). It can also be used as a substitute for corn syrup.
Basically a by-product of of refining sugar cane juice into sugar. Looks a bit like honey because of its yellowish-brown colour and thickness but has a sweet buttery sort of flavour. Tends to be mainly used in dessert recipes like cakes, biscuits, puddings, toffee, ice-cream etc. I like topping a spoonful on my porridge in the morning though - delicious!
Lyle's Golden Syrup was named as Britain's oldest brand back in 2007, with its green and gold packaging having remained virtually unchanged since 1885. The tins all have an image of a lion and short quotation, 'Out of the strong came forth sweetness' - from the bible apparently.
I also buy the Mcvite/Lyle Golden Syrup cake bars regulary to have as a teatime treat as they have a sweet syrup centre in a moist syrup sponge! Go out and get yourself a packet. They have same green logo and are easily available in the cakes section at the supermarket for a typical cost of ￡1 per pack.
its nice in porridge and on toast..