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The word 'syrup' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a sweet, viscous liquid, often used as a topping, flavoring, or sweetener in food. For example: She drizzled syrup over her pancakes and enjoyed the sweet flavor.
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syrup
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Any thick liquid that is added to or poured over food as a flavouring and has a high sugar content. Also any viscous liquid.
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At the ferry port, we wait for hours in the afternoon sun, street sellers sustaining us with a steady supply of fried plantain crisps covered in mango syrup.
It is even the syrup of choice for feverish toddlers because it brings down temperatures.
The simplest syrup comes from Butcher, who, although she also gives a more conventional recipe, informs me that originally these pastries would have been made with honey or date syrup, and supplies a version that uses these, melted in water.
Seal and Butcher both make baklava rolls, rather than the more conventional layered pastries; it's a quicker method, but a less satisfying one, as the smaller ratio of pastry to filling allows them to absorb less syrup.
Most recipes add the syrup as soon as or shortly after the pastries come out of the oven, so it can be absorbed as they cool, but Roden shares a highly "unorthodox secret trick" of her aunt Latifa's – she returns the syrupy baklava to the oven for five minutes, explaining that "the pastry made this way is among the best I have eaten".
Pour the piping-hot syrup over them a little at a time, whisking constantly.
She gave me lists for the supermarket that contained things like kale and agar syrup.
The syrup is ready if coats the back of a spoon.
Once it has come to temperature, pour the syrup over the top, especially along the lines, and put back in the oven for five minutes.
Butcher also adds rose or orange-blossom water, but I think this is more easily mixed in with the syrup.
Put the rum, syrup and lime in a cocktail shaker, shake over ice and strain into a chilled glass.
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