Coffee syrup

Coffee syrup is probably not as common as its chocolate counterpart, but nevertheless, this product is just as noteworthy. The fact is that coffee syrup has excellent gastronomic qualities, a pleasant color and a rich aroma.

Agree, quite often there is a need to quickly cook coffee - for example, in hiking conditions. It is in such cases, more than ever by the way, that coffee syrup or coffee essence falls. They allow you to get rid of unnecessary hassle, and besides, they do not require special skills in preparing a fragrant drink. It is enough to dilute a couple of spoons of this additive in boiling water or cool water and the aromatic drink is ready.

In addition, coffee syrup is just an excellent aromatic additive to a wide variety of culinary and confectionery products. For example, you can add it to the dough for the future cake, layered desserts, tarts, casseroles, mousses and other sweet dishes. In addition, often coffee syrup is used as a topping for ice cream. A few spoons of this thick, practically black sweet mass can be added to a salad based on fresh fruit and berries.

Coffee syrup is rightly considered the king of non-alcoholic cocktails. It forms a particularly charming tandem in conjunction with rowan syrup and fresh cream. In the same combination, coffee syrup can be found in the composition of fortified alcoholic cocktails. Most often, drinks with coffee syrup are easily recognizable by their spectacular brown color scheme and, needless to say, by the bright taste of coffee. The soft sweetness of this wonderful syrup is also absolutely not superfluous for any cocktail.

Interestingly, coffee syrup and coffee essence are practically no different in their composition - the difference is only in their consistency. It is clear that the syrup has a very thick structure, while the essence is a very strong sweet coffee. The preparation of these products also has some nuances: in particular, essence provides for the complete dissolution of a large amount of sugar in concentrated black coffee.

For coffee syrup, this mass is boiled until the drop lowered into the cold water is spread out. Thick chilled coffee syrup is bottled and stored in this form for a long time.

For those who do not particularly like to mess around in the kitchen, you can easily use the services of the modern food industry and buy ready-made coffee syrup. Such a product also has an increased concentration and excellent rich taste. Bottles of coffee syrup are still enough for a very long time when used regularly.