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Title: Sugar free cordial?
Post by: davejg on May 18, 2011, 21:55:55

does anyone have any recipes?

Title: Re: Sugar free cordial?
Post by: pg on May 20, 2011, 17:11:56

Not quite sure how you'd achieve sugar-free even with a recipe without added sugar. As all fruits and veg contain some sugar a percentage would leech out with steeping, more with juicing.

Flower/herb cordials would probably have the least sugar content - you could just steep flowers/leaves in boiling water with some citric acid/lemons but it would be more of a tea or tisane than a cordial.

Cordials need sugar by definition.

Title: Re: Sugar free cordial?
Post by: davejg on May 21, 2011, 14:57:17

Sorry, meant no added sugar, I might try sweetner instead.

Title: Re: Sugar free cordial?
Post by: manicscousers on May 21, 2011, 15:50:22

we stew the fruit, squash it with a potato masher, put through muslin and freeze in 2 litre bottles, We just dilute with diet lemonade, Ray's diabetic so it's not a cordial  :)
BTW, this is with currants and strawberries , the apple, we put through a press and do the same  :)

Title: Re: Sugar free cordial?
Post by: davejg on May 23, 2011, 22:09:44

Thanks thats what i was thinking about.