Spring Caramel In the article about caramel’s history, we focused on the four ingredients that make caramel the masterpiece that it is; sugar, water, and fat. When I readied to share the recipe for the caramel that we dip, to my utter shock, I found additional ingredients, corn syrup, vanilla, and a touch of salt. That discovery demands an explanation, or clarification, or rebuttal, whichever you choose. Was the previous article wrong, naive, or just inaccurate? So, delving into the corn syrup ingredient controversy, I found myself vindicated. Corn syrup is not an additional ingredient at all, it’s just another …
Corn syrup is simply a liquid sweetener. It’s a sugar made from cornstarch. Corn syrup comprises pure glucose, a simple sugar. Table sugar, the white crystal sugar I dump in my Cheerios and you into your coffee in the morning, consists of sucrose, which comprises glucose and fructose. …