Atir – Sugar Syrup Recipe

Use this simple homemade recipe for simple syrup to make syrup for cakes, drinks, and cocktails. There are suggestions for using honey, brown sugar, and white sugar.

 1 cup Sugar (white)
 1 tbsp Lemon juice
 1 tbsp Orange blossom water ('Mai Zahir' in Arabic)
 ½ cup Water

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Mix the sugar, water and lemon juice in a pot and bring to a boil on high. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then lower the heat to medium and let it boil for another 5 minutes. Then add the orange blossom water and remove from the heat.