Glucose powder

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Moved into new home and whilst sorting through piles of put aside hobby gear found a box of glucose powder ( left over from whisky or beer making).
Anyway can / should I make syrup / other for winter feed any recipe difference from sugar etc appreciated,
 
one half of the components of inverted syrup (other being fructose). solubility around 900g/liter at 25C, but I'd back that off a bit to keep it in solution. Cant see any reason not to use it. If worried, just mix it in with usual white sugar syrup preparations. I used some cheap damaged bags (25kg) of icing sugar a few year mixed in with normal stuff to dilute out the 1% anticaking agent (typically maize flour) used in caster sugar and didn't see any adverse effects, just ending up with the flower needing to cleaned up once I finished using the feeders.
 

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