Prepping a recipe that calls for simple syrup? Your grocery store will likely stock bottled simple syrup, but it will ...

The bar cart’s hardest working bottle, simple syrup might be the most-used ingredient when it comes to making cocktails. It rounds out the sharp acid in citrus-based drinks like a Whiskey Sour, adds ...

Simple syrup is nice to have on hand for the times when you feel like making a cocktail at home—but buying it from the store seems kind of wasteful when it’s nothing more than sugar and water. Making ...

Simple syrup — that cocktail mixer of one part water to one part sugar — is so easy to make at home that you'd be crazy not to skip the $6 bottle at the store in favor of boiling your own water, sugar ...

Simple syrups are an often overlooked way of adding sweet panache to drinks. Summer's demand for tall and cool beverages is an excellent excuse to get acquainted with them. Larry Crowe/AP ...

Wash but do not peel or core the fruit. Cut it into quarters. Place all the fruit in a large slow cooker. Cook on low overnight or at least 10 hours. Drain and press the fruit. I did this in batches ...