Strawberry Simple Syrup

Welcome to Strawberry Week here at Mossygoat Farm. It’s strawberry season with our June-bearing strawberries and that means strawberry shortcake, strawberry lemonade, strawberry tea, and just eating strawberries straight from the garden. This is my first strawberry post and I will be back for more strawberry recipes and strawberry family homeschool fun.

Our homegrown Oregon strawberries taste a world apart from the giant store bought strawberries you usually find in the grocery store. They are smaller and are absolutely packed with strawberry flavor. Most of our strawberries at Mossygoat Farm are the Hood variety although we do have some Tillamook as well as other varieties. Our strawberries grow fairly wild around here. They are planted amongst the flowers and we tend to let them do their own strawberry thing. We use no fertilizer other than planting them in our own composted manure and we use no pesticides. Hood and Tillamook strawberry varieties have proven to be very hardy.

Simple syrups are very easy make and are very versatile. You can use them to flavor lemonade, mixed drinks, or use them on top of baked goods and ice cream. A simple syrup is typically thinner than a pancake syrup. This allows them to be mixed easily into other liquids.

To make a simple strawberry syrup gather roughly a pound of strawberries. You can use store bought and frozen strawberries although I highly recommend buying local or visiting a u-pick strawberry patch.

You will need:

• 1 pound strawberries, rinse, tops removed, and cut in half or sliced into smaller pieces

• 1 2/3 cup sugar

• 4 cups water

• 2 medium saucepans. You can use a medium sauce pan and a medium bowl if you only have one medium saucepan.

• Fine mesh strainer

Place the rinsed, hulled, and sliced strawberries in a medium saucepan and cover them with the 4 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Once it boils, reduce heat and simmer for about 20 minutes. You will know when they are done simmering when the strawberries have lost most of their color and the water is a deep red.

Strain the mixture through a fine mesh strainer into another medium saucepan or into a medium glass mixing bowl. Do not press down on the strawberry mixture to extract more liquid. Doing so will alter your final product.

You will need to discard the solid berries. They have lost most of their flavor at this point but you can add honey or sugar and eat them on top of ice cream or in yogurt. You can also compost them.

Add 1 2/3 cup of sugar to your liquid strawberry water and bring to a boil in a medium saucepan. Stir frequently until it boils. When the sugar is fully dissolved into the water, reduce heat and simmer. You can simmer for 5-20 minutes. The longer you simmer the more the liquid will be reduced and the thicker your syrup will be. You can even use this liquid to make strawberry jelly.

Remove from heat, pour into glass jars, and let cool completely. Refrigerate when cool. Sugar acts as a preservative and it should last up to 3 weeks in the refrigerator. You can also freeze your Strawberry Simple Syrup. Be sure to leave plenty of head room in your glass jar if you freeze in glass. I leave 1” of head room minimum when freezing in glass jars. I also freeze them with the lid off and place the lid on once the liquid is fully frozen.

This simple syrup can be used to make strawberry lemonade or to use with shortcake to make strawberry shortcake. Enjoy! Let me know how you like it. Stay tuned for more recipes during Mossygoat Farm’s Strawberry Week.

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Strawberry Simple Syrup

Yield: 30

Author: Kimberly Fulmer

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 40 MinTotal time: 55 Min

Ingredients

• 1 pound strawberries 
• 1 2/3 cup sugar
• 4 cups water 

Instructions

1. Rinse strawberries and remove stem. Slice in half or into smaller pieces
2. Place strawberries in a medium saucepan and cover with the 4 cups of water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.
3. After strawberries have lost most of their color and the water is a deep red, approximately 20 minutes, remove from heat. 
4. Strain through a fine mesh strainer into another clean medium saucepan. Do not press down on the solid strawberries to extract more liquid. 
5. Discard the strawberry solids. You can eat them with yogurt although they have lost most of their flavor. You can also compost them. 
6. Add the 1 2/3 cups of sugar to the strawberry liquid and bring to a boil. Stir until sugar is dissolved in the liquid. Reduce heat and simmer for 5-20 minutes or until the liquid reaches your desired consistency. Simple syrups are usually thinner than pancake syrup. Simple syrups can be used to flavor lemonade, fizzy water, or mixed drinks. This is also delicious to pour over shortcake.  

Nutrition Facts

Calories

47

Fat (grams)

.2

Sat. Fat (grams)

0

Carbs (grams)

12.3

Fiber (grams)

.3

Sugar (grams)

11.9

Protein (grams)

.1

Sodium (milligrams)

1

Cholesterol (grams)

0

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