GINGER SYRUP AND CANDIED GINGER

This is a post for all the ginger lovers. Recently, I've had a total ginger-obsession mixing ginger syrup with fizzy water as a homemade ginger beer, or adding it to green tea (or any sort of tea for that matter). This homemade ginger syrup recipe is super simple and you also get a whole load of candied ginger as a by-product to be used in cookies, cupcakes or cocktails.

Are you totally ginger-obsessed, too? What are your favourite drinks or recipes? If you have any recipe requests that you'd like to see on the blog just leave me a comment below and I'll be sure to make it happen :).

Ingredients: 500ml water, 400g sugar, 120-150g piece of fresh ginger, icing sugar for sprinkling. Peel the ginger and slice finely. In a medium sized saucepan bring the water and sugar to the boil. Place the ginger in the saucepan and leave to simmer for 1 hour.

Strain the ginger and leave the syrup to cool. Leave the ginger to cool on greaseproof paper and sprinkle with icing sugar. Once cool, use a funnel to pour the ginger syrup into containers (I used 2 glass bottle I had lying around and a jam jar). Put a few pieces of the candied ginger into each container. Label and date your bottles.