{"id":1307,"date":"2020-01-19T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T07:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2021-01-25T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T03:38:17","slug":"blueberry-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/19\/blueberry-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueberry Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My husband has been in search of blueberry (or other berry) syrup for years.  Nothing satisfies.  He wants a sugar-based recipe, though maple is okay.  It has to be completely natural, preferably organic.  And it has to taste good with a strong fruit flavor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were some decent brands in the past, but he hasn&#8217;t had any luck lately.  So I made some.  It&#8217;s very easy but my version was a bit too sweet.  He ate it though, and just ran out.<br><br>So today I made some more and it came out perfect.  It also freezes beautifully.  I use half pint mason jars with the plastic twist-on lids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recipe:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>2 cups sugar<br>2 cups water<br>6 cups frozen blueberries<br><br>Put the sugar then water into a cooking pot.  Heat on low and stir until the sugar dissolves.<br><br>Add the blueberries and cook until they&#8217;re soft and the mixture has gone down a bit.<br><br>Stick blend the pot until the consistency is smooth (or chunky if you prefer).  If you don&#8217;t have a stick blender, you can pour it into a regular blender, though you may need to do it in stages.<br><br>Continue to cook on low heat until the water level goes down about an inch.<br><br>Let cool and put into containers.<br><br>Makes 7 half pints.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1308\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-500x375.jpg 500w, http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/blueberry_syrup_9884-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband has been in search of blueberry (or other berry) syrup for years. Nothing satisfies. He wants a sugar-based recipe, though maple is okay. It has to be completely natural, preferably organic. And it has to taste good with a strong fruit flavor. There were some decent brands in the past, but he hasn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21,26,3],"tags":[7,6,8,77,5,12],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dressings-sauces","category-food","category-recipes","tag-dairy-free","tag-egg-free","tag-gluten-free","tag-photos-food","tag-vegan","tag-vegetarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1436,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}