Homemade ginger ale syrup

[Sheila]

Homemade ginger ale syrup
1 cup thinly sliced fresh ginger
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
limes (optional)

Bring the sugar and water to a boil and let simmer until the sugar dissolves. Stir occasionally. Add the cut ginger and let simmer for about 15 minutes.
Let cool slightly before straining the syrup into a bottle or jar with a lid.
Add the syrup to a glass of club soda, squeeze in a lime wedge and voilà - yummy ginger ale!

[Granny Smith]

If you shred the ginger, instead of slicing it, you can dehydrate the ginger to use in recipes. That's what I do. The ginger syrup was actually the secondary product for me, since I was trying to crystallize the ginger.

A slug of the syrup is really good in a vanilla milkshake.