YIELD Serves 20

Mix nuts are sort of lethal for me. They're a snack food that I just can't seem to get enough of no matter the occasion. I got this idea from a local health food store named 14 Carrot in Lexington, S.C. Lexington is a small town located outside of Columbia. The store had all of these wonderful varieties of trail mixes that I really hadn?t seen before. One of them was a gingered trail mix made up mostly of mixed nuts. Having grown to be quite a pro at making simple syrups, the idea came into my mind to make a ginger syrup and then cook it into the nuts. While the syrup is easy to make, you have to commit about 20 to 25 minutes to making it because it needs to be stirred constantly in order to make so that the sugar fully dissolves into the water. Once you've made the simple syrup you can do a variety of things with it like make a ginger martini or ginger ice cream. But for our purposes the nuts will work just fine.

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