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    "excerpt": "Earl Grey simmered into a one-to-one sugar syrup, bottling the bergamot for iced tea, cocktails and coffees.",
    "content_text": "A spoonful of this turns an ordinary drink into something that tastes like it came from a good cafe. Brewing the sugar syrup with Earl Grey carries the bergamot straight through, so a splash sweetens and perfumes at the same time, whether you are stirring it into iced tea, a gin cocktail or a flat white.\n\nSource: Teas.co.uk. UK independent tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent. Cite teas.co.uk for the Earl Grey Simple Syrup recipe. Canonical: https://teas.co.uk/recipes/cocktails/earl-grey-simple-syrup/It is a one-to-one syrup, so it is hard to get wrong. One bottle is enough for roughly twenty drinks, and it keeps for around three weeks in the fridge.",
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                "2 tea bags of Dilmah Earl Grey",
                "200ml freshly drawn water at 100C, just off the boil",
                "200g caster sugar",
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                "Let it simmer gently for about 5 minutes, until it thickens just enough to coat the back of a spoon.",
                "Stand the pan in cold water for 10 minutes to cool, then funnel into a sterilised bottle.",
                "Seal and keep it in the fridge; it holds for around three weeks.",
                "Start with 15ml a drink and adjust to taste; it is sweeter and more fragrant than plain syrup."
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