With this recipe, I can kill two birds with one stone. The two birds are my children. One loves ginger ale and the other loves ginger candy. The stone is this lovely ginger syrup recipe for making ginger soda and candied ginger. This ginger soda is similar to ginger ale but has a lovely warm heat that creeps up after you have taken a couple of sips. A ginger syrup is made, poured into a glass with ice, a half a lime is squeezed in and then it is topped with sparkling water or plain soda. Very refreshing. One interesting aspect of a homemade ginger soda is the warm, spicy after taste of the ginger which I love. The candied ginger tastes very much like the store bought variety, except for not as sweet. I know that sounds a little silly considering that it is candy, but none the less, I stand by my statement. I think the reason is that my ginger syrup was not as sweet as it could have been and therefore neither was the candy. I am more into flavor than sweet and too much sweetness seems to take over the flavor sometimes. In the USA, I think many of our products are overly sweet and the flavor is not as pronounced as it could be. This is my personal opinion.
