I Grew GRASS & Turned It Into A Sweet SYRUP | Homemade Malt Syrup

This is how I grew wheatgrass and turned it into malt syrup. ✨#emmymade #maltsyrup #wheatgrass
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[@emmymade]

All this talk about syrup has me craving pancakes.🥞What are your favorite toppings? Ours include: real maple syrup, chopped nuts, and fresh fruit. The kiddos like mini chocolate chips because they melt faster. 🔥

[@japnuts]

Cheese, maybe an over easy egg and syrup.

[@meganthings]

I like making vanilla pancakes with a cinnamon swirl! And then top it with some icing so it's like a cinnamon roll pancake

[@Koreviking]

Bacon and blueberry jam is basically the topping we always have in Norway.

[@abluemug]

I like making super soft scrambled eggs and placing it next to my pancakes to let the syrup run all over. The sweet salty combo, you can’t go wrong!

[@frog4886]

Peanut butter and blackberry jam

[@oshahott2532]

One thing I've noticed about Emmy is that no one's really ever tried to "replicate" her success. I genuinely think that's because she doesn't exactly have a certain "style" of video, but rather what we mostly watch her videos for are her willingness and love of trying new things. I love that about her!

[@WonderfulHayden]

It's also hard to capture Emmy's essence. Only Emmy does Emmy well.

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it’s because you cant replicate effort to satiate actual curiosity! and that is my fave thing about this channel, it’s quirky and unapologetic, curious but not unfounded, whimsical but not naive. this channel truly gives me that feeling of childish wonder but with adult skill and practicality lol

[@vannahray9773]

We watch her just because it's EMMY ND we love her lol. And her content

[@aereid6]

@@SpaghettiPlays very well said!

[@edwardhisse2687]

Actually I think nobody can replicate her style because she got popular before youtube became a so clickbaity and competitive.

[@EmilyDelBel]

Fun fact, the first part of this process is essentially how beer gets made. Barley instead of wheat is germinated (not left to grow to the long grass stage but only the first short rootlet stage) and then kilned or heated to stop the growth of the plant. This process, called malting, activates enzymes called amalases that convert starch (in this case provided by rice but in beer is also provided by the malt or wheat or other ingredients) into smaller sugars like maltose that brewer's yeast can convert into alcohol. -Sincerely, a food scientist who works at a malt company. 😊

[@roodude10]

Funny, I have a malt intolerance/allergy basically any time malt hits my lips I get lactose intolerance symptoms (gastrointestinal distress)! Who would have thought a chemical process could cause that but, the grain itself done nothing?

[@Jeff_Lichtman]

I wonder whether it would work to get malt from a brewing supply store and use it instead of the wheatgrass.

[@jarred267]

@@Jeff_Lichtman Any germinated cereal grain will work, they all produce the needed enzyme. Commercial brewers malt is germinated and then dried barley. You could even germinate brown rice, then use that with more rice as a starch source.

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@martinkieser]

@@Jeff_Lichtman if the malt is not heated to death it will work. I know, because i just do that. I order whole, gently dried barley malt and grind that into a powder whenever i need enzymes in powder form. This way i turn sticky rice into rice syrup.

[@Mzmissy215]

Never in a million years would I have thought a sweet syrup could be made from rice and wheat grass..wow

[@emmymade]

Right?! So cool.

[@Mzmissy215]

@@emmymade super cool, we learn a lot of great stuff on your channel 🥰

[@kimonawhim11]

Well rice is a starch…

[@jarred267]

This is exactly the same process as brown rice syrup. Just she used white rice with malted wheat instead of the typical malted barely.

[@contactjoy4140]

@@jarred267 Excellent! So, using the same process, but changing from wheat to barley makes Brown Rice Syrup? Thanks.

[@afinecashewwholovesfood6042]

I swear. Your channel always has the most interesting ideas but I love it 😂

[@emmymade]

Thank you!

[@mon_moi]

"I'll be growing grass, not that kinda grass" I-

[@pookiedookiedoo]

i liked how dialed-back this video was. really relaxing, nice to have on in the background, but still easy to follow. it felt like i was there in the kitchen with you :)

[@ohglobbits]

Nobody puts emmy in the background!

[@contactjoy4140]

@@ohglobbits THAT'S a 4 👍 statement!!

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@ohglobbits]

@@contactjoy4140 i was thinking too obscure / old

[@tippytappy]

has anyone else discovered or rekindled a whole other level of love, fascination, and appreciation for different foods since watching emmy? i personally find myself no longer just treating all foods as purely sustenance, and i love it :D

[@schelles_xviii]

Yes! I’ve gotten to a point in life where I was so pre-occupied with other things that I no longer cared about what I put in my system, and sometimes I’d find thinking about what to eat the most annoying task ever and I wished I could survive on photosynthesis. Watching Emmy’s videos again during the winter break has helped me with this issue and now I at least look forward to eating!

[@chriscarnage90]

Emmy- "Alright, first thing we need to do is grow our wheat grass" Okay Emmy, I'll be back in 8 days. 😂🤣

[@lynnleigha580]

I love Ann and her Lego breakdowns, lol!

[@BraydenTM]

I'm so glad you mentioned Anne! I would just DIE if you two did a video together 😭

[@ixchelkali]

You might find it interesting to look up samanu, which is an ancient Persian dessert made just from malted wheat, which is still made today in countries which were formerly part of the Persian Empire. I usually have malt syrup in the cupboard, but I've never made my own. It was interesting to see how it's made. The one I use is made from barley. I've seen one made from rye, too. Did you give the grain you strained out to the chickens? My mom used to make mash for her chickens using a similar process, though she never made syrup.

[@xurx2838]

I look this up on KZbin and it was excellent. Tks.

[@jkopppo223]

YES

[@Neeneebee23]

Whenever one of my fav youtuber mentions another one of my fav, I know I'm subscribed to the right people 🥰🥰🥰 Emmy and Ann thank you for saving this platform from BS and fakery. Keep doing what you're doing! Stay safe 🥰🥰🥰

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@ClanImprobable]

Yes same, I was happy when Emmy mentioned Ann!

[@erikahaight4597]

When emmmy says "no not that kinda grass" I laughed a little too hard 😂 💙

[@rinhallee4375]

I love the way Emmy describes the way the food tastes, like I could never describe something so effortlessly and so accurately

[@potaht-flop9482]

This reminds me of that one time my sister, aunt and I got caught eating grass together by my next-door neighbor. Seeing Emmy make grass into something edible makes me feel somewhat better lol

[@stephaniepapaleo521]

...but...why were you eating grass. So. many. questions.

[@madhupriyaghosh6594]

What???

[@potaht-flop9482]

@insanity wolf actually, I'm allergic to peanuts. My aunt told us that the root of the grass was edible and we ate it together.

[@potaht-flop9482]

@@stephaniepapaleo521 According to my aunt, the root of it was edible. So she cut it off for us and we all ate it together.

[@stephaniepapaleo521]

@@potaht-flop9482 mystery solved! Thank you! As a kid I eating onion grass, I picked wild from our front yard, not knowing it was actually mini scallions/chives!

[@hannakinn]

Until now I only knew about malt made from barley. I've always loved the flavor of malt. I buy malt powder and put it in a lot of desserts and in my coffee and certain types of tea. Barley malt is delicious! I'm very tempted to try wheat grass malt syrup.

[@violetviolet888]

Malt is germinated "cereal grain" that has been dried in a process known as "malting". Therefore you can make malt from any cereal grain. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt

[@chimeracooks]

malt is so delicious, so cool how its made! I love that its good for you as well! :-)

[@SophiaPetrillosBuddy]

With that sprouted wheat, could you try to replicate Ezekiel breads? I think it would be an interesting experiment

[@SebastianGramsz0]

Hi Emmy! I can't help not to comment on this video. I'm from Europe and we have quite a long tradition of making maltose this way you did on the video! We would normally stop the wheat (or more often barley) a bit earlier than you did to preserve starch inside the grain, though. This sprouted grain we call MALT - hence the MALTOSE - sugar derived from malt. But what you do next is NOT at all called "fermentation" !!!! It is called "mashing" - activating an enzyme that emerges during sprouting in grain. This enzyme in exactly 63°C (145°f) is able to convert starch (long chain of carbohydrates) into maltose (double bond glucose). You did that with your rice! The sweet water you have filtered out we call WORT. You can boil it down into a syrop - like you did. Or better!!! - Let it ferment (now it is called fermentation). Depending on the kind of yeast you use for fermentation (top - high temperature yeast, or bottom - low temperature) you'd get one of two most exciting european drinks. One is called Ale, and the other called Beer. I really recommend doing one of those drinks in next video!! :)

[@your3kidding]

Nice explanation. I think "fermentation" is why a commenter seemed concerned whether this contained alcohol.

[@bullyhomestead7232]

I watched Ann’s video as well! I loved it I Trying to limit my sugar and it was great to see her explain they are literally all the same lol

[@CrazyLegs88]

Emmy always makes me feel better. She's awesome.😊

[@josephvincent2643]

I am legit so in love with this channel I get so excited when I see a new video!!

[@beetroot48]

Wow! This was so amazing, Emmy. Thanks for demonstrating this. Loved it

[@lynnleigha580]

Two of my most favorite smells are fresh cut grass and garages, no joke

[@NaeniaNightingale]

I too love the scent from newly cut grass and my mothers garage- maybe a bit odd but it’s true :)

[@AP-uj2fg]

I really appreciate the way you give credit to those who teach you about these topics!

[@justkristy]

This is amazing! Emmy, you are a gem. Thank you for all your videos. I really do learn something every time I watch. 😀

[@ztowanda]

My Grandfather was a wheat farmer. In 4th grade, we had a greenhouse project for school... and the only seeds we had on hand were wheat! Our greenhouse was wildly successful!

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@SilverA90]

I'm glad to see you're still around and making videos! Happy holidays

[@vivadevega]

I grow fodder for my chickens, guinea pig and quail! I love how versatile grass can be!

[@eduardo042906]

This was such a great interesting video. Love you Emmy!😁

[@dthurley8490]

This is fascinating. Thank you for yet another fabulous video Emmy.

[@privateprivate9285]

Aaaaammmmmaaaazzzzzziiiinnnnggggg! Emmy! Defo going to do it tomorrow.

[@greenseaturtle4]

This was so awesome and interesting. I've been watching Emmy for years and anyways enjoy her videos. Thank you Emmy. 😊

[@roisinohagan1711]

Love love love this! TY for researching it and sharing

[@johnathancorgan3994]

Have you ever had amazake before? This is a very similar process to that, except here it is the enzymes in the seeds (amylase) that normally break down the wheat seed starch being used to also break down the rice starch into various simple sugars. Heh, instead of reducing the strained liquid to syrup, you could add yeast and make an unusual form of rice wine! Grass-sake, so to speak. 😆

[@wiseSYW]

kusake

[@twashington9983]

I just happen to have some wheargrass seeds, coco coir and trays...LET'S DO THIS!

[@emmymade]

Yes! Happy syrup making.

[@fkaciggs]

Man this is so freakin cool! ✨💖

[@dmangsmile]

This reminds me of Maangchi's (Queen!) video of making 쌀조청 Ssal jocheong Korean rice syrup. Very interesting process, I recommend giving it a watch! Thanks for the great video Emmy!

[@NoahThomasTrain]

I was bored. Emmy posted. Perfect.

[@Wildevis]

Awesome results!!!

[@Aaaajjjjjaaaa]

Love your videos, always!

[@karenkelley9001]

Absolutely love you Emmy!

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@muffinberg7960]

The consistency is just incredible. Lovely.

[@Lisa1111]

Sweet little decorations Emmy! Who knew? Cool video! Thank you and Happy Holidays love ❤ Seat🏔tle

[@emmymade]

Thank you! And Happy Holidays to you!

[@fridaohman5974]

That color reminds me of a sugary caramell snack we eat for christmas here in Sweden - Knäck! It's boiled syrup, cream and sugar that is cooked to the soft ball stage and at then we place them in little molds and sprinkle almonds over it. I'd love to see you try your hand at it!

[@maiadion557]

Yes cooking is science! Love you Emmy... Never missed one of your vids EVER

[@valerieconner6339]

I have been watching your videos since sometime last year. I've always been a science "nut" and ask how that or this took place. You have fulfilled this part of my everyday "normal" life. Thankyou so much. Keep up the great recipes and experiments. You're amazing.

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@aprilarmijo6967]

AWSOME.... ABSOLUTELY AMAZING ❤️ DEFINITELY GOTTA TRY THIS PROJECT

[@maedaydreamer8386]

I love science!! This is so cool. You and Ann can really collab coz your contents really blends well

[@Wuppetwoman1]

No one can describe something as well as Emmy... you know just how something feels, smells, tastes. I could never!

[@contactjoy4140]

Emmy, Emmy, Em-myyy!!! Thank-you doesn't come close to expressing my appreciation for your research and courage to discover amazing food sources!! I was enthralled watching you take the first taste of the watery, fermented slush! Absolute Bravery!! The result, after you boiled it into syrup, was spectacular! I grow wheat grass, then drink a wheat shot a day, but never knew it could be modified so completely into a wholesome, sweet syrup. Millions of humans across the world are "Prepping" for a future, cataclysmic event, wherein there will be food shortage. Yet, right here you have shown how to use a small amount of seeds and rice to replace a multitude of other sweetness.... One could learn to use the Wheat Syrup in coffee, definitely in tea, and in all other sweetened foods, yet, the ingredients don't take up crucial storage space. No doubt whatever is left after draining the fermented slush can be tossed to the farm animals to eat so nothing is wasted at all and the process is also not labor intensive. You explain the details and history beautifully. I'm going to share, share, share your video with everyone on my contacts list because I feel this is a knowledge that is essential to survival and staying healthy. Growing and eating sprouted wheat is a necessary, nutritional building block and creating the syrup is an amazing bonus which is full of Umami. Thank-you Emmy. I'm a long time subscriber and grateful that I discovered your channel where Science meets Culinary for the Win!!

[@sealthrob]

Loved your description of the flavour.

[@BreeBrat35]

She is so adorable....i love ur enthusiasm 😂❤

[@jbsamjam]

I love wheat grass shots!

[@LindsayDaly]

"Not that kind of grass" okay but if Emmy started a grow operation series I would watch it 💀

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@Pizzaglo88]

Made me remember to get my sprouting kit out hahah great video ❤️

[@Carolynfoodforest355]

I'm saving this video and sharing it with some of the homestead groups I'm in. They will love this.

[@TheTimo5494]

Easy tip to help with mold is ground cinnamon. It kills mold and also orevents it as well. I use it alot in my indoor garden

[@LoveLandforChrist]

I am convinced you can do any and everything 💖

[@starz965ss]

How cool! Thanks for sharing.

[@joycestewart4893]

So cool!!

[@1erinjames]

This was sooo interesting!!

[@1erinjames]

How long will it last before it goes bad or molds?? I want to try this!!

[@hugoa.c.1566]

Great description on the flavor, almost poetic

[@beckystutzman6899]

I watch How To Cook That all the time. I always get so excited when a channel I love quotes another channel I love! 😍

[@carsonwieker]

Wow impressive work! Cheers

[@Lydgendary]

This was so fascinating

[@jodyrafter]

emmy thats a great vlog I was giggling at the end as just before you tasted it and your normal saying on the subtitles it said "eat the ducky moss" lol

[@portablecity]

Took me back to the malt candy lollipops my grandpa loved from growing up in the prairies. There's something about the kind of glassy look of the syrup that just precisely matches those lollipops! And it really was a different flavor than other candy.

[@ashleyengland2506]

Your videos always bring me calm after a crazy day. Itadakimasu!

[@emmymade]

Oh, good. 🧡

[@ashleyengland2506]

@@emmymade 🤍🤍🤍

[@jrdmgl6190]

You can make this with any cereal grain! Rice, barley, wheat, all make their own malts!

[@jessicag630]

How about corn? Can you do it with corn? Is the rice that is mixed with malted grains edible? Or do you discard it?

[@heylisten7266]

Everything you do is cool, but this one especially! I'm familiar with malt syrup, wheatgrass, and glutinous rice but never knew they had this relationship! Thanks for sharing!

[@jbsamjam]

Great job!

[@MissJeje]

Wow.. amazing idea for content.. very creative ❤️

[@QueSarahSarah72]

This is pretty neat! If I enjoyed cooking more I'd give this a try. It's fun, though, to watch the lovely Emmy experiment with cooking 👩‍🍳☺️

[@rayhs1984]

That wheat grass is sold to cat owners to stop them from chewing on houseplants. Mike Jeavons did a video on it and he talked trash about it, right up until he gave it to the cat and the cat LOVED it.

[@frankuzmascareenuz6968]

It looks amazing.

[@benjamindejonge3624]

Thanks for sharing, this is very valuable to me

[@alexatroskina7083]

What?! Wow! That is awesome! I had no idea!

[@icequeen1131]

Would love to see other ways to use wheat grass! It looks easy to grow and I’d love to try it.

[@contactjoy4140]

Amazon sells everything you need to get started! That's where I bought all of my wheat seed, trays, etc.

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@charlie6923]

Emmy, making the unfamiliar absolutely delightful!

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@tenderali79]

This has got to be the most interesting food experiment video I have seen in a while. And I didn't even once stop to check how much time was left before the end 😁

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@laurametheny1008]

I found it! Country Life Vlog. I watched the whole process. They ate it like soup. It's one of a special seasonal dish. Then I looked and saw you had it in the description! Hi Emmy!😎

[@UrbanHomesteadMomma]

Ok now we need you to show us all of the cool things we can use this for Emmy!! We need recipes!

[@SkySkytheScienceGuy]

This was fascinating! I almost wanna make this myself as a substitute for maple syrup X3

[@DMSProduktions]

Simple enzyme reaction! The sprouted wheat grass has the malt + enzyme, & the gluintous rice provides the bulk gluten. The maltase enzyme then cracks the glutins into simple sugars which make up the malt syrup! This is the same process basically for malting for beer fermenting! Nice 1!

[@SmartyPoohBear]

Emmy describing it as having a herbaceous flavor now makes me want to taste it. I love herbal, grassy, floral, and vegetal flavors.

[@thebasiclife8307]

I just saw that same yellow Pyrex in a local antique shop. I’m going back for it now haha love your videos :)

[@1tiptip187]

You can turn the stuff I grow for my cats into a malt syrup! I did not know this!

[@lorimartin3724]

Yummy. I just saw that same Ann Reardon vid. Was extremely interesting and educational. Emmy I love how you show us these how tos even though I know I won't be doing them. Fun to watch you experiment. Thanks.

[@jamesglenn1936]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today

[@kimwilliams5165]

Late, but I loved this 😍 Also thank you for telling us that it will turn into a hard candy, I was thinking will this keep going as you said it.

[@nadinestewart9279]

My mom taught us to eat pancakes with butter and brown sugar. I do that from time to time it’s good for a treat. But I like jam or a good berry syrup. One restaurant in my town used to have a pina colada syrup that was amazing!

[@synnny]

so cool!!!!

[@melissamcclain34]

Not that kind of grass 😂😂😂😂 love your sense of humor!! And what an Incredible video, you create some of the most amazing things💜

[@qytj1182]

The grass instantly reminded me of Nowruz! thats how its grown for it with the seeds and water Especially w the ribbon for decor

[@JimsKitschKitchen]

You are such a clever gal. Thanks for the edu-tainment

[@Splintz246]

I've had wheatgrass it's good lol I used to eat it at our playground and clover tops with honeysuckle.

[@WhizerdJae]

So interesting!

[@CrankyOtter]

Thank you for sharing this process so I know that purchasing maltose is the better choice for me. I do like seeing how things get made, but I’ll be making toum.

[@kateymateymusic1]

I will never ever try making this. But I was mesmerised watching haha

[@mariagarcia-po6kl]

Hi Emmy. I did not know you could make syrup from grass. Thank you for sharing your video with us. God Bless you and your family. Stay safe and healthy. Maria. 🎄🎄🎄🎄🎀🎀🎀🎀❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘😘👍👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏