Golden Syrup (For Mooncakes) 月饼糖浆
This homemade Golden Syrup for Mooncakes is amazingly easy to make. All you need are sugar, water and some lemon slices. This syrup has a beautiful golden amber colour with an amazingly thick honey-like texture and sweet lemony fragrance. This is the key ingredient for popular asian pastry and desserts, such as traditional baked mooncakes.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr 30 min
- Yield
- 45 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 kg sugar
- 750 ml water (3 cups)
- 4 slices lemon (cut into ½ cm thick)
Instructions
- 1
Preparing Ingredients:
- 2
Have ready all ingredients needed to make golden syrup: sugar, water and lemon. Cut 4 slices of lemon, about ½ cm thick each.
- 3
Cooking Golden Syrup:
- 4
Place a medium-size pot on the stove. Add in the sugar, water and lemon slices. Stir a bit.
- 5
Turn heat to high. Stir to mix well. Cook till the syrup comes to a boil, stirring occasionally till all the sugar has dissolved.
- 6
Then lower the flame to low. Continue to simmer gently (small bubbles) till the syrup turns a rich amber colour, about 1 hour later.
- 7
At this stage, test if the sugar syrup has reached the desired consistency. Drop some syrup into a bowl of water and it should spread out. When touched, you should feel syrupy at the bottom.
- 8
When done, off the flame and remove the lemon slices from the syrup. Remove the pot from the stove. Pour the hot syrup into a clean glass jar and let it cool completely before closing the jar with a secure lid. And we are done!
- 9
This golden syrup will thicken after a few days and can only be used for making mooncake skin after at least 2 weeks. So Enjoy!