Sugar syrup
@allknowing (153544)
India
October 5, 2023 10:48pm CST
We have a few sweets that are soaked in syrup such as gulab jamun, jalebi,rasgulla and more. Mostly they come from West Bengal.
I try them too but what I like the most is to have dried apricots in sugar syrup. I place the apricots in hot syrup and keep them overnight As you know dried apricots are not easy to eat as the flesh gets stuck in the seed and they are a load on one's teeth
Soaked apricots are sweet and the flesh is separated from the seed. The juicy apricots taste so good and a pleasure to eat, provided ofourse you have a sweet tooth
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Oct 23
I did get some sun dried apricots which I put in puddings but never ate them as such. I wonder why our dried apricots are so difficult to eat
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
6 Oct 23
@Fleura I have eaten dried prunes that did not need soaking but apricots are too dry and it is struggle to separate them from the see. You are lucky you get them soft.
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@Fleura (34927)
• United Kingdom
6 Oct 23
@allknowing Dried fruit here always used to be quite hard and dry, I remember my mother soaking prunes overnight for example. But somewhere around the 1980s they suddenly got softer. There was a fashion for 'health food shops' and my friend and I used to walk into town after school (there was a short wait for the bus home) and buy dried fruits and just eat them out of the bag, I remember we argued about whether apricots or prunes were the best!
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@allknowing (153544)
• India
9 Oct 23
The stuff that is soaked in there is not sweet and so it needs the syrup
@Beestring (15373)
• Hong Kong
6 Oct 23
I love to eat dried apricots. I may find soaped apricots too sweet. If one has a sweet tooth, that sounds tasty.
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@Gilljane (2897)
• Sutton, England
6 Oct 23
@allknowing Yes. the are much nicer that ddried
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