"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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> Felice Friese > wrote:
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>>"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
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>>> But in "The Gentleman's Companion", copyright 1939, it's
>>> called bar syrup. A synonmyn is "gumme".
>
>> OK, you win! Your 1939 citation pre-dates my learning the term,
>> so I'll take it as gospel.
>
> Thanks, I like winning, but I would still like to know WHO started
> calling it "simple syrup".
>
> Was it the same guy who started calling burittos "wraps"?
>
> Steve

My husband, whom I married in 1955, made "simple syrup" for whiskey sours,
so I guess I picked it up from him.

Felice