what to do with leftover syrup from canned fruit?

[Sara Noel]

Looking for ideas to use this vs. tossing it down the drain.

[homesteadmamma]

My guy Michael absolutely loves those juices. He watches until I drain the can and then he drinks them. At least it doesn't get thrown down the drain.

[bamamomto4]

Someone here usually drinks it.

[Missy]

when you have left over juice, make a fruit flavored icing. You can freeze it for when you ned it to drizzle on pies or cakes.

1 lb powdered sugar in a mixer bowl, drizzle in juice from a can until you get a thick icing, if you like your icing more runny, add more juice or water, a little at a time.

I have some frozen for cherry pies I premade and froze. Used the sauce from the can to flavor the icing, they kids practically crawled up my legs to get at the beaters I held over my head. Warning...this is a huge sugar surge.

[sunshine]

I use it as the "water" portion for jello. Sometime I have to add water to equal the amount called for, but it adds flavor to the jello (especially if using unflavored gelatin).

[pip]

I use it in jello, too.

[SewCrafty]

Yep jello here too! I also saved and canned the leftover peach juice last summer to use for this also.

[duckduckgoose007]

[Sara Noel]

Thanks everyone. Zachary likes the peach juice syrup and drinks that, but I often have juice from other canned fruit and I usually just drain it off and kept thinking that there must be some ways I could use it. The jello and icing are great ideas. We eat both here.

[simplemom]

I use it to replace the liquid I would put in muffins or small cakes. I also reduce the sugar to my recipe when I do this, because the syrup is already very sweet. It works very well and makes nice muffins and small cakes.

[paelthom]

Excellent ideas! Here it usually gets drank (by me). I especially like the idea of using it in muffins. Yum!

[jettsmom]

I use it in jello too. I just thought of freezing it and using it for ice cubes in drinks, like maybe a punch bowl or for speed setting jello when you don't add fruit to it..

[captclearance]

It depends on if it's juice or syrup......
You can warm the syrup (or juice) in a small sauce pan.
Add a bit of water and corn startch and make a fruity pancake / waffle syrup....... good on ice cream too !!!!!!!
Won't keep more than a day or too though........

[sunshine]

Originally posted by captclearance
It depends on if it's juice or syrup......
You can warm the syrup (or juice) in a small sauce pan.
Add a bit of water and corn startch and make a fruity pancake / waffle syrup....... good on ice cream too !!!!!!!
Won't keep more than a day or too though........

Ohhhhh. . . . . good idea. I'll have to give that a try!

[AmyMCGS]

Great ideas! It never occured to me to do anything other than have one of us drink it.