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    Lyle's Golden Syrup Cookbook
    Lyle's Golden Syrup Cookbook
    Lyle's Golden Syrup Cookbook
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    Lyle's Golden Syrup Cookbook

    By Tate & Lyle

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    This appetising collection of over 80 sweet and savoury classic and contemporary recipes reveals the versatility of cooking with Tate & Lyle's Golden Syrup, either as a main ingredient or to enhance the flavour of the recipe. Be tempted by the sumptuous seasonal selection - from American Apple Cinnamon Pancakesand Lyle's Gallant Gingerbread Mento Beef with Golden Syrup and Ginger and Salmonwith Black Treacle, Juniper and Sherry Dressing.

    With many mouth-watering photographs and simple-to-follow recipes, it'll be easy to spoil family and friends with delicious home cooking all year round. There are extra tips and suggestions included with many of the recipes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster UK
    Release dateMar 10, 2016
    ISBN9781471148897
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      Lyle's Golden Syrup Cookbook - Tate & Lyle

      THE

      LYLE’S

      GOLDEN SYRUP®

      COOKBOOK

      OVER 100 SWEET AND SAVOURY RECIPES, CELEBRATING THE NATION’S FAVOURITE STICKY STAPLE

      First published in Great Britain by

      Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2016

      A CBS Company

      Published under licence from Tate & Lyle Sugars.

      Lyle’s Golden Syrup is a registered trademark of

      European Sugar Holdings S.a.r.l

      Recipe, design and photography copyright © Simon & Schuster 2016

      This book is copyright under the Berne Convention.

      No reproduction without permission.

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN 978-1-4711-4888-0

      ISBN 978-1-4711-5644-1 (Paperback)

      eISBN 978 1 4711 4889 7

      Simon & Schuster UK Ltd

      222 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8HB

      www.simonandschuster.co.uk

      Simon & Schuster Australia, Sydney

      Simon & Schuster India, New Delhi

      A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      Printed and bound in China

      Colour Reproduction by Aylesbury Studios Ltd, UK

      Notes on the recipes

      EGGS Use medium eggs, unless otherwise stated. Pregnant women, the elderly and children should avoid recipes with eggs which are not fully cooked or raw.

      FRUIT AND VEGETABLES Our recipes use medium-sized fruit and vegetables, unless otherwise stated.

      MICROWAVES If we have used a microwave in any of our recipes, the timings will be for an 850 watt microwave oven.

      PREP AND COOKING TIMES These are approximate and meant to be guidelines. Prep time includes all the steps up to and following the main cooking time(s). Cooking times may vary according to your oven. Before serving chicken, always check that there is no pink meat and that the juices run clear by piercing the thickest part of the flesh with a sharp knife or skewer.

      SPOON MEASUREMENTS These are level. 1 tablespoon = 15 ml, 1 teaspoon = 5 ml.

      Image here: promotional poster dated c.1890

      CONTENTS

      Introduction: the Lyle’s story

      Breakfast and brunch

      Savouries

      Biscuits and traybakes

      Puddings, tarts and desserts

      Cakes and teatime treats

      Sweet bites

      Index

      THE LYLE’S STORY

      It is among the oldest and most iconic brands in the world – an enduring Victorian legacy which holds pride of place in millions of kitchen storecupboards. Yet Lyle’s Golden Syrup might never have been spooned from its familiar green and gold tin had it not been for a twist of fate in 1865.

      That year, a Scottish transatlantic shipping company owned by Abram Lyle (right in illustration below) and his partner John Kerr docked a cargo of West Indies sugar cane at Greenock on the south bank of Scotland’s River Clyde. On discovering the importer couldn’t pay the freight charges, they agreed to take his sugar in lieu of the debt. It proved a canny move.

      Lyle’s expansion into the sugar trade coincided with that of another ambitious company run by a former Liverpool grocer, Henry Tate (left in illustration opposite), who owned a refinery in the city’s Love Lane quarter. Over the next three decades these two families would become fierce business competitors, protective of their recipes and production secrets and suspicious of the other’s motives. Yet their rivalry would also be the genesis of a world-leading partnership. Half a century later, Tate & Lyle would unite as a bold and innovative company, transforming the sugar industry and those who worked in it. Most notably, its refineries, on the River Thames in east London offered a new way of life for thousands of women – the so-called ‘Sugar Girls’.

      Women soldering the Golden Syrup tins in 1910

      Plaistow wharf, 1907

      Employees Agnes, Birdie and Alice in the factory laboratory c. 1900

      An overview of the factory development laboratory, 1950

      Lyle’s employee, Jim Preston, c. 1900

      An original syrup dispenser

      In the mid-1860s Henry Tate looked to London to expand his business. He settled on a huge derelict shipyard at Silvertown. By June 1878 the Silvertown refinery was up and running. In 1878 the refinery melted 214 tons of raw sugar; in 1899 his London and Liverpool Tate refineries were melting 2,000 tons of raw sugar per week.

      When Abram Lyle set to work constructing a refinery – the famous syrup is a by-product of the cane sugar refining process – at Plaistow on the north bank of the Thames in 1881, among his neighbours, barely 1½ miles upstream at Silvertown, was Tate’s refinery.

      The Tate’s Silvertown refinery pioneered the production of cubes rather than the traditional large conical blocks known as ‘sugar loaves’. Cubes proved more convenient for grocers to store and were popular with customers.

      In business terms, Tate’s sugar cubes didn’t come close to Lyle’s Golden Syrup, or ‘Goldie’ as it was known to employees. Records show that in 1914 only about a sixth of Lyle’s 3,000-ton melt was turned into Goldie, while the rest was sold as conventional sugar. The profit on sugar, however, was only around £1 per ton, whereas Goldie fetched up to £6 per ton. Not bad for a by-product.

      Lyle realised early in his Plaistow venture that his syrup would be a hit. Production was initially low-key - Goldie was poured into wooden casks and sold direct to employees or local residents in the know, but as word spread, so output rapidly increased. Within months, the refinery was selling a ton per week and casks were replaced by large ‘Lyle’s Golden Syrup’ branded dispensers and 1 lb and 2 lb tins for grocery store shelves. The Victorians couldn’t get enough. As well as the definitive ingredient for steamed puddings, sponge cakes, pancakes and biscuits, it became fashionable in vegetable dishes, such as candied carrots or syrup dumplings.

      Advert from 1908

      In 1885, Goldie was sold in tins for the first time, a move that demanded an easily recognisable trademark to establish it as a trusted brand in the home. Lyle came from a religious family background, so it was perhaps inevitable that he chose a Bible story for the artwork. The illustration on the tins shows bees swarming around a honeycomb inside the rotting carcass of the lion killed by Samson. The accompanying quote from Judges 14 reads: ‘Out of the strong came forth sweetness’. It’s not quite clear what Lyle had in mind. The reference to sweetness is obvious, but the debate continues as to whether ‘the strong’ referred to his company, Abram Lyle & Sons, or his robustly constructed tins.

      By the turn of the century Lyle’s Golden Syrup was a household name, its reputation enhanced by a simple advertising theme emphasising versatility and natural goodness. Poster adverts included the ‘Inseparables’, depicting two delivery boys – one from the baker’s; one from the grocer’s – walking arm in arm with a basket of freshly baked bread and an order of syrup tins (see here). Later, as rationing took a grip during the First World War, Lyle’s posters assured the nation that their syrup was ‘better than butter’. It certainly lasted longer. When the remains of Captain Scott’s ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition were discovered by explorers in 1956, his supply of Lyle’s Golden Syrup was found intact and perfectly edible.

      The original trademark design, which remains unchanged to this day

      The recipe for Goldie was a fiercely protected secret (and remains unchanged to this day), there was a gentleman’s agreement that Tate would not muscle in on syrup and Lyle would not sell sugar cubes.

      A Model T Ford van used by Lyle’s c. 1923 for delivering Golden Syrup

      Poster from 1913

      Poster c. 1900

      Black-and-white showcard c. 1900

      Poster c. 1913

      Confectionery advert, 1898

      The First World War brought new challenges for the Tate and Lyle businesses. For one thing, male employees were called up in their hundreds and had to be replaced by women – an unthinkable social change at the time. It heralded a new era in British manufacturing and many bosses feared productivity would suffer. In fact, refinery managers quickly realised their new employees were efficient and more than capable of working the punishing 12-hour shifts of physical labour.

      Captain Scott’s letter of thanks to the Lyle family, written in 1911 and despatched from the Antarctic, a tin recovered from the explorer’s camp

      One frustrating consequence of war was the government’s control of sugar refining. Ministers imposed strict controls on profit, allowing refineries to bank only the same amount annually as their average over the three years prior to 1914. For Lyle’s, perhaps the most worrying aspect of this was a ban on using tin. Metals were considered a vital resource for the war effort, certainly too vital for syrup, so Lyle’s was forced to sell Goldie in cardboard canisters, with a rather sniffy explanation on the packaging (see here). In case syrup-lovers remained suspicious, the message concluded, in capital letters, ‘LYLE’S GOLDEN SYRUP IS GUARANTEED PURE’.

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