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 Flowing, golden, partially inverted refiner's sugar syrup. Made by treating sugar syrup with acid so that it 'inverts' into fructose and mixing this back with natural sucrose syrup. Golden Syrup is therefore more similar, both in appearance and in chemistry, to honey than to either corn syrup or molasses.  Golden Syrup - as a retail product rather than as a stage in sugar processing - is known from advertisements in the sugar-producing lands of the USA and Jamaica since the beginning of the 19th Century, and it appears to have been sufficiently well-known in the British Isles by 1845 for Soyer to include it in a pudding receipt. The iconic green-and-gold label of the Lyle's brand of Golden Syrup carries the truly bizarre image of a rotting lion carcass with a swarm of bees coming out of it and the quotation from Chapter 14 of the Book of Judges in the Bible 'Out of the Strong came forth Sweetness'. The story is that Samson, travelling in search of a wife, killed a lion, and on his return journey saw that a swarm of bees had settled in the carcass. What on earth that has to do with sugar syrup is a mystery, but it presumably took the fancy of the deeply religious Abram Lyle. This classic design has hardly changed since the Scottish businessman started putting golden syrup in tins in London in 1885. Captain Scott took Lyle's Golden Syrup on his 1910 polar expedition.  Golden Syrup Tin from Scott's Expedition, c1910 http://www.nhm.ac.uk For dishes using Golden Syrup see: Apple Dappy Ashbourne Gingerbread Baked Apples Brandy Snap Baskets Brandy Snaps Brown George Pudding Butterscotch Sauce Caramel Squares Chester Cake Cinder Toffee Cornflake Cakes Cornflake Tart Cornish Fairings Cressing Biscuits Cumberland Soda Cake Dorset Fair Gingerbreads Flapjacks Ginger Nut Biscuit Glazed Carrots or Onions Golden Syrup Golden Toffee Grasmere Gingerbread Harrier Cake Hollygog or Ollygog Pudding Launceston Cake Lincolnshire Plum Bread Moggy Norfolk Fair Buttons Norfolk Treacle Tart North Country Tart Oat and Syrup Scones Oatcakes - Derbyshire Parkin Pear and Ginger Upside-down Pudding Porridge Refrigerator Cake Rhubarb Gingerbread Scones Suffolk Dumplings Syrup and Ginger Scones Syrup Roll Thunder and Lightning Treacle and Marmalade Tart Treacle Custard Treacle or Syrup Upside-Down Pudding Treacle Tart Treacle Toffee Vectis Pudding or Vectis Roll Wakefield Gingerbread Yorkshire Treacle Tart Young England Pudding  |
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