Raspberry Syrup
Raspberry syrup is made by cooking raspberries with sugar and straining out the seeds, producing a bright, tart-sweet berry syrup. It offers concentrated fruit flavour without a liqueur's alcohol content. It is used to sweeten and colour a cocktail with berry character.
Common uses
- sweetener and colourant in shaken cocktails
- adds berry flavour to sours
Buying & storage
Weeks once opened: Opened, it is on a clock — oxidation flattens it well before the bottle looks empty. Refrigerate it and use it.
Storage: refrigerate after opening and use within a couple of weeks
Before it goes
Use up raspberry syrup
Ranked by how much of it each drink uses and how little else it needs — the ones at the top will not send you back to the shop.
- Clover Club
Uses 15ml. Also needs gin, fresh lemon juice, egg white.
Recipes
Cocktails containing this ingredient
Stand-in
Where raspberry syrup is a recommended substitute
Recipes that name it as a swap for something else, with what it replaces.
- Tequila Sunrisein place of grenadine
- Bacardí Cocktailin place of grenadine
- Metropolitanin place of simple syrup
- Virgin Sunrisein place of grenadine
- Cinderellain place of grenadine
- Lime Rickeyin place of simple syrup
- Raspberry Shrub Sodain place of raspberry shrub (drinking vinegar)
Swap it
Possible substitutions
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