If you love adding cozy flavors to your drinks, this Spiced Simple Syrup is about to be your new secret ingredient. It's sweet, a little warm from the spices, and takes less than 15 minutes to make.

Simple syrup is made of one part sugar dissolved in one part water over medium heat. You can use herbs, extracts, fruits, and spices to make flavored simple syrup. Regular simple syrup will last for ...

A staple behind every bar, simple syrup is one of those magic ingredients capable of bringing out the best in every drink without the fancy parlor tricks or sacrificing on refinement. This I know from ...

A Jungle Bird–inspired cocktail made with mezcal, Campari, pineapple juice, lime, and cinnamon syrup, offering a lean, smoky, ...

Close up bowl of honey drizzling off wooden stir stick - Rapeepong Puttakumwong/Getty Images Adding a drizzle of honey simple syrup to your drinks is a surefire way to spruce up coffee and cocktails ...

May 14—True to their name, simple syrups are an easy way to make your home cocktails, lemonades and other sweet treats more delicious. Because they are fundamentally so basic — just sugar and water — ...

No matter how dry you like your martini, the original definition of the word cocktail—still considered canon by purists—calls for sugar. A piece by Mallory Arnold called “A Sticky Day in the Life of a ...

Move over simple syrup, it's time for honey. Lucy Simon is a New York-based wine, spirits, and food writer has been with Food & Wine since the spring of 2021. The Honey Mint Julep riffs on a classic ...

Making simple syrup is ridiculously easy — boil sugar and water — but most cocktail formulas call for only a spoonful. Do I really want to wash a pot just to have a splash of plain liquified sugar? I ...