How do I make lemonade from a lemon?

[Person25]

Hey all,

Looking for some help. I’ve only made soft maple candy leafs once so I have little candy making experience.

Where I’m at is this, I just pulled a 5 gallon bucket of finished syrup from 23’ out of the freezer. I intended to transfer it all into gallon jugs for a customer, which went fine, but I found about, 3 inches of candy like sugar at the bottom of the bucket while emptying.

Clearly that buckets syrup had gotten a little hot and make some crystallized syrup when I finished it last year. What can I do with it now? I thought about pouring it into molds but I don’t think it will set up and harden. Can I mix it up with some syrup and take it up in temp to make granular sugar? Is it to far already? I certainly don’t want to waste it. Any advice is appreciated!

[DrTimPerkins]

Add water to dilute it back to syrup. Reboil until the density is correct.

[Person25]

Thanks Doc, I sort of figured I could do that but wasn’t sure so thanks for the vote of confidence!